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Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Pipelines

v1.12.0 · Feb 9, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

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>).

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies base64url callr cli codetools data.table igraph (>= 2.0.0) knitr prettyunits ps R6 rlang secretbase tibble tidyselect vctrs +1 more dependencies geotargets gittargets jagstargets ravepipeline sqltargets tarchetypes SCIproj chopin data.validator fastreg knitr repana worcs targets

Version History

new 1.12.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.12.0 ← 1.11.4 diff Feb 8, 2026
updated 1.11.4 ← 1.11.3 diff Sep 12, 2025
updated 1.11.3 ← 1.11.1 diff May 7, 2025
updated 1.11.1 ← 1.10.1 diff Apr 9, 2025
updated 1.10.1 ← 1.10.0 diff Jan 30, 2025
updated 1.10.0 ← 1.9.1 diff Jan 12, 2025
updated 1.9.1 ← 1.9.0 diff Dec 3, 2024
updated 1.9.0 ← 1.8.0 diff Nov 19, 2024
updated 1.8.0 ← 1.7.1 diff Oct 1, 2024
updated 1.7.1 ← 1.7.0 diff Jun 19, 2024
updated 1.7.0 ← 1.6.0 diff Apr 16, 2024
updated 1.6.0 ← 1.5.1 diff Mar 12, 2024
updated 1.5.1 ← 1.4.1 diff Feb 14, 2024
updated 1.4.1 ← 1.4.0 diff Jan 8, 2024
updated 1.4.0 ← 1.3.2 diff Dec 10, 2023
updated 1.3.2 ← 1.3.0 diff Oct 11, 2023
updated 1.3.0 ← 1.2.2 diff Sep 10, 2023
updated 1.2.2 ← 1.2.0 diff Aug 9, 2023
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.3 diff Jun 25, 2023