| babelwhale | Talking to both Docker and Singularity containers from R |
| copy_file | Copy a file from a container to the host system |
| create_config | Backend configuration for containerisation |
| create_docker_config | Backend configuration for containerisation |
| create_singularity_config | Backend configuration for containerisation |
| get_default_config | Backend configuration for containerisation |
| list_docker_images | List docker containers |
| pull_container | Pull a container from dockerhub |
| read_file | Read a file from a container |
| run | Run a containerised command, and wait until finished |
| run_auto_mount | Run a containerised command with automatic mounting of files |
| set_default_config | Backend configuration for containerisation |
| singularity_image_path | Determine the cached path of singularity images |
| test_docker_installation | Tests whether docker is correctly installed and available |
| test_singularity_installation | Tests whether singularity is correctly installed and available |