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*Machine Learning Model Written in R?*
Hi Guys, I have tried to search around without any luck. Is it theoretically possible to run a machine learning model written in R through a R docker image with the docker agent? Or is a Vertex custom model using the Vertex agent the only viable option here?

Yes I’d say! Technically you could do whatever you like with a <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/tasks/shell.html|ShellTask> as long as you can get everything to run your command into the container

Also, we got this fantastic community contribution of an `RTask` via Discourse: <https://discourse.prefect.io/t/running-r-scripts-with-prefect/293>

It allows you to natively pass a dataframe between a task written in R to a Prefect task written in Python - it's really cool, definitely worth checking out!