Introduction:

I believe the idiosyncrasies of most HPC technologies represent the major road block to their adoption (in any language or system). HPC technologies are often difficult to set up, use, and manage. They often rely on frequently changing and complex software library dependencies, and sometimes highly specific library versions. Managing all this boils down to spending more time on system administration, and less time on research.

How do we make things easier? One approach to help accelerate the adoption of HPC technology by the R community uses Singularity, a modern application containerization technique suited to HPC.