targets: Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Pipelines

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>).

Version: 1.6.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: base64url (≥ 1.4), callr (≥ 3.7.0), cli (≥ 2.0.2), codetools (≥ 0.2.16), data.table (≥ 1.12.8), digest (≥ 0.6.25), igraph (≥ 2.0.0), knitr (≥ 1.34), ps, R6 (≥ 2.4.1), rlang (≥ 1.0.0), secretbase, stats, tibble (≥ 3.0.1), tidyselect (≥ 1.1.0), tools, utils, vctrs (≥ 0.2.4), yaml (≥ 2.2.1)
Suggests: bs4Dash (≥ 2.0.0), clustermq (≥ 0.9.2), crew (≥ 0.9.0), curl (≥ 4.3), DT (≥ 0.14), dplyr (≥ 1.0.0), fst (≥ 0.9.2), future (≥ 1.19.1), future.batchtools (≥ 0.9.0), future.callr (≥ 0.6.0), gargle (≥ 1.2.0), googleCloudStorageR (≥ 0.7.0), gt (≥ 0.2.2), keras (≥ 2.2.5.0), markdown (≥ 1.1), nanonext (≥ 0.12.0), rmarkdown (≥ 2.4), parallelly (≥ 1.35.0), paws.common (≥ 0.6.4), paws.storage (≥ 0.4.0), pingr (≥ 2.0.1), pkgload (≥ 1.1.0), processx (≥ 3.4.3), qs (≥ 0.24.1), reprex (≥ 2.0.0), rstudioapi (≥ 0.11), R.utils (≥ 2.6.0), shiny (≥ 1.5.0), shinybusy (≥ 0.2.2), shinyWidgets (≥ 0.5.4), testthat (≥ 3.0.0), torch (≥ 0.1.0), usethis (≥ 1.6.3), visNetwork (≥ 2.1.2)
Published: 2024-03-13
Author: William Michael Landau ORCID iD [aut, cre], Matthew T. Warkentin [ctb], Mark Edmondson ORCID iD [ctb], Samantha Oliver ORCID iD [rev], Tristan Mahr ORCID iD [rev], Eli Lilly and Company [cph]
Maintainer: William Michael Landau <will.landau.oss at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/targets/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/targets/, https://github.com/ropensci/targets
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: targets citation info
Materials: NEWS
In views: HighPerformanceComputing, ReproducibleResearch
CRAN checks: targets results

Documentation:

Reference manual: targets.pdf
Vignettes: An overview of targets

Downloads:

Package source: targets_1.6.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: targets_1.6.0.zip, r-release: targets_1.6.0.zip, r-oldrel: targets_1.6.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): targets_1.6.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): targets_1.6.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): targets_1.6.0.tgz
Old sources: targets archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: gittargets, jagstargets, tarchetypes
Reverse suggests: data.validator, googleCloudRunner, knitr
Reverse enhances: this.path

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