Agreed that Make needs more work. I was planning to write a makefile in class as a live demo but we didn’t have time for it.




On November 13, 2013 at 10:54:57 AM, John Blischak (notifications@github.com) wrote:

In lessons/misc-r/full-R-bootcamp/08-reproducible-research/make.md:

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> +# Make - automate document writing
> +
> +`Make` is a simple but powerful tool for managing a build process in a language-independent manner.  
> +
> +`Make` is a domain-specific language for encoding a dependence graph.
> +
> +By writing a make file you are instructing the program make to synthesize files from dependencies.
> +
> +`Make` is widely available in many platforms and can easily be installed in others where it's not available as default (e.g. Windows).
> +
> +---
> +
> +# Basic idea of make
I think this needs to be fleshed out. Perhaps build a makefile step-by-step instead of just showing examples of completed scripts.

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