Session 8: Reproducible scientific workflows in R - Part 1

Introduction to the {targets} package

This session introduces best practices in reproducible scientific workflows and their implementation using the {targets} package.

In this session, a discussion of best practices on reproducible scientific workflows and an introduction to using the {targets} to implemenet these workflows. The final part of the session will be the first day of Hackathon 2025.

Further Reading

  • Dynamic Function-Oriented Make-Like Declarative Workflows - https://docs.ropensci.org/targets/

  • The targets R Package User Manual - https://books.ropensci.org/targets/

Teaching Material

Slides can be viewed here.

PDF version of slides can be downloaded here.

R scripts for slides available here.