Hi, just to bump this and share a link to the "rocker project" (https://rocker-project.org/) since they are the standard for maintaining containerized R images. See the image rocker/rstudio
I personally use R for tons of stuff, like interacting with APIs (httr package), creating my own APIs (plumbr), cleaning and transforming datasets (tidyverse) and creating web apps (shiny)
would love to see it packaged in a cloudron app