The targets R package: a dynamic Make-like function-oriented pipeline toolkit for reproducibility and high-performance computing

William Michael Landau

doi:10.21105/joss.02959

January 15, 2021The Journal of Open Source SoftwareOpen Access

The targets R package: a dynamic Make-like function-oriented pipeline toolkit for reproducibility and high-performance computing

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Introduce the targets package, a function-oriented pipeline toolkit developed to ensure reproducible computation and accelerate complex analytical workflows in R.
Engineers a Make-like dependency graph framework natively tailored for R functions, scripts, and data objects.
Integrates dynamic branching architectures to automatically track, manage, and distribute tasks across high-performance computing clusters.
Eliminates unnecessary execution cycles by actively caching objects and skipping pipeline targets whose upstream inputs remain unchanged.
Provides transparent orchestration of parallel distributed workloads while maintaining end-to-end provenance and reproducible output states.

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Software architecture paper presents a dynamic pipeline toolkit for R workflows, facilitating reproducible data science and scalable high-performance computing.

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