Reproducible computation at scale in R with targets, Will Landau, November 2021
Channel: NHS-R Community
Date: 2022-05-13

Facilitator: Will Landau, Eli Lilly and Company – USA

Data science can be slow. A single round of statistical computation can take several minutes, hours, or even days to complete.

The targets R package keeps results up to date and reproducible while minimizing the number of expensive tasks that actually run. targets arranges the steps of your pipeline, skips costly runtime for steps that are already up to date, runs the rest with optional implicit parallel computing, abstracts files as R objects, and shows tangible evidence that the output matches the underlying code and data. In other words, the package saves time while increasing your ability to trust the results.

This hands-on workshop teaches targets using a realistic case study

Pre-requisites: Some introductory experience with R