Use docker multistage builds for R development and deployment setting

r docker deployment rstudio rstudio-server

tl;dr: You cannot. In the way you ask, methinks. Maybe you can do it differently.

Longer version:

Don't take this as a glib answer.
I think it gets to the core of how we package source code
- from taking source code from source repos
- or taking binary aggreations, for example as .deb files
- or taking binary meta-aggreations, here Docker layers
You realize that there are Docker layers containing components
If I read your request correctly, you desire "reversing" one layer
i.e. get the RStudio part out of the RStudio docker
I think you can't
Fundamentally, the RStudio Docker container just unpacks the .deb they ship
So you should reverse your whole stack
Start fron r-ver or r-base, add your particular development needs
Then add the RStudio .deb as we do in the RStudio container
(Legalese: We have explicit permission to redistribute this, I doubt this is transitive)

Hope this helps. Fill in any blanks where I got my assumptions wrong.

CodeHunter