R Observatory: Metrics for targets version 1.12.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

targets

1.12.0

Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Pipelines

20packages depend

228.2Kdownloads / year

88.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by William Michael LandauFirst published 2021-01-2145 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Pipeline tools coordinate the pieces of computationally demanding analysis projects. The 'targets' package is a 'Make'-like pipeline tool for statistics and data science in R. The package skips costly runtime for tasks that are already up to date, orchestrates the necessary computation with implicit parallel computing, and abstracts files as R objects. If all the current output matches the current upstream code and data, then the whole pipeline is up to date, and the results are more trustworthy than otherwise. The methodology in this package borrows from GNU 'Make' (2015, ISBN:978-9881443519) and 'drake' (2018, doi:10.21105/joss.00550).

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("targets", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("ropensci/targets")

Development version from ropensci/targets. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-targets

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-targets

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-targets

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 10.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.15

88.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

19

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 84%
References docs: 2%

Downloads

228.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #850 · ~625/day · ~19K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

17.8K30 days

56.8K90 days

228.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.8K r2u16 autocran7.5K conda_forge79 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/targets

1,092Stars

84Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

60Releases

3,781Commits

26Contributors

reproducibilityhigh-performance-computingrdata-sciencepipelinerstatsr-packageworkflow

3,781 commits · Last activity 2026-05-13 · +0.5% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-24 · 1,0062026-08-07 · 1,092

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/targets on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Show all practices

Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesPR template

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

50 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (19)

base64url callr clicodetoolsdata.table igraph (>= 2.0.0)knitr prettyunits ps R6 rlang secretbasestatstibble tidyselecttoolsutilsvctrs yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

20direct

1indirect

geotargets gittargets jagstargets nlmixr2targets ravepipeline sqltargets tarchetypes tarchives tarpolyglot SCIproj amadeus chopin data.validator fastreg knitr mortar pipeflow realestatebr repana worcs

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

William Michael Landau

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

Mark Edmondson

Contributor · added in 0.11.0

Matthew T. Warkentin

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Eli Lilly and Company

Copyright holder, Funder

Funders (1)

Eli Lilly and Company

Copyright holder, Funder

Reviewers (2)

Tristan Mahr

Reviewer

Samantha Oliver

Reviewer

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Landau

no longer listed · 0.0.2 to 1.12.0

Warkentin

no longer listed · 0.0.2 to 1.12.0

Package Timeline

45 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-04-30
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-01-21
Total releases: 45 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 753 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R Reproducible Research

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Format

Landau, W. M., Edmondson, M., Eli Lilly and Company, , Mahr, T., Oliver, S., & Warkentin, M. T. (2026). targets: Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Pipelines (Version 1.12.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.targets

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for targets version 1.12.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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