targets

We have hosted the application targets in order to run this application in our online workstations with Wine or directly.

Quick description about targets:

The targets package is a pipeline / workflow management tool in R, designed to coordinate multi?step computational workflows in data science / statistics. It tracks dependencies between �targets� (computational steps), skips steps whose upstream data or code hasn�t changed, supports parallel computation, branching (dynamic generation of sub?targets), file format abstractions, and encourages reproducible and efficient analyses. It�s something like GNU Make for R, but more integrated.

Features:

• Declarative �target� definitions of tasks: you declare what steps depend on what, and targets builds the dependency graph
• Skipping computation for up-to-date targets so that unchanged parts of workflow are not recomputed
• Parallel execution of targets where possible to speed up workflows
• Support for branching / dynamic target creation (e.g. looping over combinations, expanding pipelines dynamically)
• File abstractions: targets can represent files or R objects, and tracking file changes etc is incorporated
• Tools for reproducibility: recording metadata, settings, dependency tracking, manifesting that output corresponds to current code/data etc.

Programming Language: R.
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