Lunch&Learn: {targets} with Irena Papst

Do you ever find yourself starting with a simple analysis script only to end up wrangling a thousand line behemoth? Are you sick of wasting time re-running long scripts from start to finish, just to make sure everything is up-to-date? Are you (haphazardly?) saving objects to file because they take a long time to generate? There’s got to be a better way!

Enter {targets}, an R package used to build reproducible, efficient, and scalable pipelines. {targets} can free you from many common analysis management tasks so that you can focus on the analysis itself. In this session, I’ll introduce the {targets} package and share how I’ve used it to streamline my work. I'll also highlight some tips and tricks that I've learned from my experience with the package over the last two years.