7 targets
targets is Alec’s other favorite package. It is a tool for combining your
functions and data into a full analysis pipeline. Targets (like predecessors
drake and GNU Make), monitors changes to data and R code to only rerun
what you need to, when you need to. It has helped me build huge pipelines
with thousands of datasets, and many analytical steps. I won’t attempt to
introduce it here - the package is well documented by a dedicated, and incredibly
helpful developer (thanks!). The pay off here is huge, write functions in R
and easily rerun your analysis with one step: tar_make().
Some projects in the lab that have used targets are:
- Movebank summarizer:
move-book - Preparing animal movement data with
prepare-locs -
Caribou swimming paper (using
drake)