targets and tarchetypes · Issue #401 · ropensci/software-review (original) (raw)

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Package: targets
Title: Dynamic Function-Oriented Make-Like Declarative Pipelines for R
Description: The targets package is a pipeline toolkit that brings together
  function-oriented programming and Make-like declarative workflows for
  Statistics and data science in R. It implements a workflow as collection of
  interconnected tasks, analyzes the dependency relationships among these
  tasks, skips steps that are already up to date, runs the necessary
  computations with optional parallel workers, abstracts files as
  R objects, and provides tangible evidence that the results match
  the underlying code and data. The methodology in this package
  borrows from GNU Make by Richard Stallman (2015, ISBN:978-9881443519)
  and drake by Will Landau (2018) <doi:10.21105/joss.00550>.
Version: 0.0.0.9001
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://wlandau.github.io/targets/, https://github.com/wlandau/targets
BugReports: https://github.com/wlandau/targets/issues
Authors@R: c(
  person(
    given = c("William", "Michael"),
    family = "Landau",
    role = c("aut", "cre"),
    email = "will.landau@gmail.com",
    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1878-3253")
  ),
  person(
    family = "Eli Lilly and Company",
    role = "cph"
  ),
  person(
    given = c("Matthew", "T."),
    family = "Warkentin",
    role = "ctb"
  ))
Depends:
  R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports:
  callr (>= 3.4.3),
  cli (>= 2.0.2),
  codetools (>= 0.2.16),
  data.table (>= 1.12.8),
  digest (>= 0.6.25),
  igraph (>= 1.2.5),
  R6 (>= 2.4.1),
  rlang (>= 0.4.5),
  tibble (>= 3.0.1),
  tidyselect (>= 1.1.0),
  utils,
  vctrs (>= 0.2.4),
  withr (>= 2.1.2)
Suggests:
  aws.s3 (>= 0.3.21),
  clustermq (>= 0.8.9),
  curl (>= 4.3),
  dplyr (>= 1.0.0),
  fst (>= 0.9.2),
  future (>= 1.17.0),
  keras (>= 2.2.5.0),
  knitr (>= 1.30),
  rmarkdown (>= 2.4),
  qs (>= 0.23.2),
  rstudioapi (>= 0.11),
  testthat (>= 2.3.2),
  torch (>= 0.1.0),
  usethis (>= 1.6.3),
  visNetwork (>= 2.0.9)
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-US
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.1.1.9000
VignetteBuilder: knitr

Package: tarchetypes
Title: Archetypes for Targets
Description: The targets package is a pipeline toolkit that brings together
  function-oriented programming and Make-like declarative workflows for
  Statistics and data science in R. The tarchetypes package provides
  convenient user-side functions to create specialized targets,
  making pipelines easier to create and read. The methods in this package
  were influenced by the drake R package by Will Landau (2018)
  <doi:10.21105/joss.00550>.
Version: 0.0.0.9000
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://wlandau.github.io/tarchetypes/, https://github.com/wlandau/tarchetypes
BugReports: https://github.com/wlandau/tarchetypes/issues
Authors@R: c(
  person(
    given = c("William", "Michael"),
    family = "Landau",
    role = c("aut", "cre"),
    email = "will.landau@gmail.com",
    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1878-3253")
  ),
  person(
    family = "Eli Lilly and Company",
    role = "cph"
  ))
Depends:
  R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports:
  fs (>= 1.4.2),
  rlang (>= 0.4.7),
  targets,
  tidyselect (>= 1.1.0),
  utils,
  vctrs (>= 0.3.4),
  withr (>= 2.1.2)
Suggests:
  digest (>= 0.6.25),
  knitr (>= 1.28),
  rmarkdown (>= 2.1),
  testthat (>= 2.3.2)
Remotes:
  wlandau/targets
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-US
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.1.1.9000

Package: targets.manual
Title: Targets R Package User Manual
Description: This repository contains the source files of the targets R
  package user manual.
Version: 0.0.0.9000
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://wlandau.github.io/targets-manual,
  https://github.com/wlandau/targets-manual
BugReports: https://github.com/wlandau/targets-manual/issues
Authors@R: c(
  person(
    given = c("William", "Michael"),
    family = "Landau",
    role = c("aut", "cre"),
    email = "will.landau@gmail.com",
    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1878-3253")
  ),
  person(
    family = "Eli Lilly and Company",
    role = "cph"
  ))
Depends:
  R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports:
  biglm (>= 0.9.2),
  bookdown (>= 0.19),
  fs (>= 1.4.1),
  purrr (>= 0.3.4),
  tarchetypes,
  targets,
  tidyverse (>= 1.3.0),
  visNetwork (>= 2.0.9),
  withr (>= 2.2.0)
Remotes:
  wlandau/tarchetypes,
  wlandau/targets
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-US
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.1.0
VignetteBuilder: knitr

Scope

targets is an R-focused pipeline toolkit for Make-like declarative workflows. It resolves the dependency relationships among steps of a data analysis workflow and skips steps that are already up to date.

targets is for R users who maintain computationally intense function-oriented data analysis projects (with large codebases and/or long runtimes). Such projects may include but are not limited to Bayesian statistics, simulation, machine learning, PK/PD, and spatial statistics.

targets is the long-term successor to drake. After four years of development, drake has improved so much that its insurmountable problems have become its most pressing ones. A new package is necessary to advance the capability further. So while I still believe drake is thriving, and even though I will continue to maintain drake indefinitely, I created targets to try to break new ground. At https://wlandau.github.io/targets/articles/need.html#drake, I take a detailed dive into the ways that targets surpasses drake's permanent limitations.

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