gittargets: Data Version Control for the Targets Package
In computationally demanding data analysis pipelines,
the 'targets' R package (2021, <doi:10.21105/joss.02959>) maintains
an up-to-date set of results while skipping tasks that do not need to rerun.
This process increases speed and increases trust in the final end product.
However, it also overwrites old output with new output, and past
results disappear by default. To preserve historical output, the 'gittargets'
package captures version-controlled snapshots of the data store,
and each snapshot links to the underlying commit of the source code.
That way, when the user rolls back the code to a previous branch or commit,
'gittargets' can recover the data contemporaneous with that commit so that
all targets remain up to date.
| Version: |
0.0.7 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Imports: |
callr (≥ 3.0.0), cli (≥ 3.1.0), data.table (≥ 1.12.8), gert (≥ 1.0.0), processx (≥ 3.0.0), stats, targets (≥ 0.6.0), tibble (≥ 3.0.0), utils, uuid (≥ 0.1.4) |
| Suggests: |
knitr (≥ 1.30), markdown (≥ 1.1), rmarkdown (≥ 2.4), testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: |
2023-12-04 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.gittargets |
| Author: |
William Michael Landau
 [aut, cre],
Saras Windecker [rev],
David Neuzerling [rev],
Eli Lilly and Company [cph] |
| Maintainer: |
William Michael Landau <will.landau.oss at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/ropensci/gittargets/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://docs.ropensci.org/gittargets/,
https://github.com/ropensci/gittargets |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| SystemRequirements: |
Git (>= 2.0.0) |
| Language: |
en-US |
| Citation: |
gittargets citation info |
| Materials: |
NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
gittargets results |
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