targets: Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Pipelines (original) (raw)

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:	1.11.4
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports:	base64url (≥ 1.4), callr (≥ 3.7.0), cli (≥ 2.0.2), codetools (≥ 0.2.16), data.table (≥ 1.16.0), igraph (≥ 2.0.0), knitr (≥ 1.34), prettyunits (≥ 1.1.0), ps (≥ 1.8.0), R6 (≥ 2.4.1), rlang (≥ 1.0.0), secretbase (≥ 0.5.0), stats, tibble (≥ 3.0.1), tidyselect (≥ 1.1.0), tools, utils, vctrs (≥ 0.2.4), yaml (≥ 2.2.1)
Suggests:	autometric (≥ 0.1.0), bslib, 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), pkgload (≥ 1.1.0), processx (≥ 3.4.3), qs2, reprex (≥ 2.0.0), rstudioapi (≥ 0.11), R.utils (≥ 2.6.0), shiny (≥ 1.5.0), shinybusy (≥ 0.2.2), shinyWidgets (≥ 0.5.4), tarchetypes, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), torch (≥ 0.1.0), usethis (≥ 1.6.3), visNetwork (≥ 2.1.2)
Published:	2025-09-13
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.targets
Author:	William Michael Landau [aut, cre], Matthew T. Warkentin [ctb], Mark Edmondson [ctb], Samantha Oliver [rev], Tristan Mahr [rev], Eli Lilly and Company [cph, fnd]
Maintainer:	William Michael Landau <will.landau.oss at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/ropensci/targets/issues
License:	MIT + file
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

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