targets

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Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Pipelines

William Michael Landau

Last update: 15 February 2024

Copyright license: MIT license, File License

Software version identifier: 0.14.3, 1.0.0, 1.1.3, 0.0.2, 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.6.0, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.13.1, 0.13.4, 0.13.5, 0.14.0, 0.14.1, 0.14.2, 1.1.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.2, 1.3.0, 1.3.2, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.5.1

Source code repository: https://github.com/cran/targets

Description

Pipeline tools coordinate the pieces of computationally demanding analysis projects. The 'targets' package is a 'Make'-like pipeline tool for statistics and data science in R. The package skips costly runtime for tasks that are already up to date, orchestrates the necessary computation with implicit parallel computing, and abstracts files as R objects. If all the current output matches the current upstream code and data, then the whole pipeline is up to date, and the results are more trustworthy than otherwise. The methodology in this package borrows from GNU 'Make' (2015, ISBN:978-9881443519) and 'drake' (2018, <doi:10.21105/joss.00550>).

Cites work

• The drake R package: a pipeline toolkit for reproducibility and high-performance computing