Workflows

Ad-hoc pipeline construction and execution in R.

Allows:

• constructing analysis and processing plans in R language
• local execution or on an SGE cluster

Install

Not on CRAN. Install using devtools.

devtools::install_github('eachanjohnson/workflows')

R dependencies:

• devtools
• eachanjohnson/errR
• dplyr
• magrittr
• future

Usage

library(workflows)

workflow objects are containers for pipeline objects, which keep track of analysis plans, which targets have been built, and checkpointing of intermediate results.

See also

Inspired by -- but not even close in functionality to -- the Dask project for Python.

Other, more functional pipeline/workflow/multicore/DAG packages for R include but are not limited to:

• future
• batchtools
• multidplyr
• drake
• flowr