Get started with USGS Data Science pipelines

[github-learning-lab[bot]]

Data analyses are often complex. Data pipelines are ways of managing that complexity. Our data pipelines have two foundational pieces:

• Good organization of code scripts help you quickly find the file you need, whether you or a teammate created it.

• Dependency managers such as remake, scipiper, snakemake, drake, and targets formalize the relationships among the datasets and functions to ensure reproducibility while also minimizing the amount of unnecessary runtime as you're creating or modifying parts of the pipeline.

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[github-learning-lab[bot]]

:keyboard: Installing tools

To complete this section, you'll need some R packages. You will need to install targets and its companion package, tarchetypes.

install.packages(c("targets", "tarchetypes"))

While you are at it, please install a few other packages that you'll use along the way:

install.packages(c("tidyverse", "sbtools", "whisker", "dataRetrieval"))

When all packages are installed, comment with the message that appears after you run packageVersion("targets").

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[jesse-ross]

[1] ‘0.7.0’

[github-learning-lab[bot]]

Thanks, @jesse-ross! Now, verify that the number you just commented is greater than or equal to 0.3.1.

If not, try re-installing:

install.packages(c("targets", "tarchetypes"))
library(targets)

If you can't get it to work, try contacting your designated course instructor!

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