languageserver pre-installed Docker image for VS Code Remote-Containers

[eitsupi]

Thank you for your continuous development.

As pointed out in https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-r-lsp/issues/40#issuecomment-674439183, if we want to work on a Docker container using VSCode Remote-Containers, etc., there is a problem that it takes time to install the languageserver package on the container.

Currently, VSCode Remote-Containers includes the definition of R devcontainer, but it takes about 10 minutes to complete the build because it installs the languageserver and other packages locally.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/blob/29446f9e48aff5d9e679166026d8d55728e6df36/containers/r/.devcontainer/Dockerfile

Could you have a Docker image with packages such as languageserver and radian installed for VSCode Remote-Containers as shown in julia-vscode/julia-devcontainer in REditorSupport?

[eitsupi]

I believe one of the strengths of the languageserver package is that, unlike RStudio, it can be used on arm64 too. So I have tested builds of rocker/r-ver compatible images and rocker/tidyverse-like images with languageserver installed instead of RStudio in the following repositorie.
https://github.com/eitsupi/r-ver

This is sufficient for my own use, but to use it for definitions included in VSCode Remote-Containers, it needs to be owned by organizations such as REditorSupport and rocker-org, so I am working on a contribution for multi-architecture builds at rocker-org/rocker-versioned2 for the base image rocker/r-ver.
As for the image which {languageserver} pre-installed for VSCode (devcontainer), I think it is best to have it owned by REditorSupport, so please create a repository for it.
I'd like to contribute to building a build system that includes automatic updates when a new R version is released (this has already been merged into rocker-org/rocker-versioned2).

Thanks!

[eitsupi]

The Rocker Project is currently building this and it is easily available on Codespaces.
https://github.com/rocker-org/devcontainer-images