ropensci/targets

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

targets is a Make-like, function-oriented pipeline tool for statistics and data science workflows in R. It skips computation for up-to-date targets, orchestrates implicit parallel computing, and stores outputs to make analyses efficient and reproducible.

Use cases

• run reproducible data science pipelines in R
• skip recomputation of unchanged analysis steps
• orchestrate parallel statistical analyses
• manage dependencies between data processing and modeling tasks
• build reproducible research workflows for papers
• run computationally demanding simulation studies
• cache intermediate results of long-running R analyses

When to choose

• your R analysis project has interdependent steps and slow recomputation
• you want Make-like incremental builds for statistics or data science
• you need reproducible, evidence-backed pipelines for research or business deliverables
• you want implicit parallel/distributed computing via crew or clustermq

When to avoid

• your project is not in R
• you need a general-purpose CI/CD or container orchestration tool
• your workflow is a simple linear script with no costly steps

Facets

library · maturity active

workflow-automation scheduling developer-tools data-science developer-tools cross-platform cli make-like pipeline reproducible-research rstats parallel-computing r-package automation reproducibility r

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