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Reconsider "automating" #16

Open jennybc opened 5 years ago

jennybc commented 5 years ago

Some subset of people hope for coverage of something like make or drake or, in any case, a system for truly setting up automation. Which this workshop does not provide.

I'd consider rewording this:

Do you want to streamline your workflow for doing analysis and automating repetitive tasks in R?

I'd go more in the direction of ... making it easy to rerun analyses or reproduce your results. A subtle shift of emphasis.

jennybc commented 5 years ago

@jimhester did implement the "packages report" activity with make, at the Seattle workshop. So it would be nice to capture his completed example, so we have it.

I've put up a pure R completed example, with low-tech automation:

https://github.com/rstats-wtf/wtf-packages-report-EXAMPLE

jimhester commented 5 years ago

The Makefile example is at https://github.com/jimhester/my-packages/tree/jims