Sean Davis <sdavis2 <at> mail.nih.gov> writes: > > There are numerous tools like scons, make, ruffus, ant, rake, etc. > that can be used to build complex pipelines based on task > dependencies. These tools are written in a variety of languages, but > I have not seen such a thing for R. Is anyone aware of a package > available? The goal is to be able to develop robust bioinformatic > pipelines driven by scripts written in R.
This might (?) be better for r-devel (although it's a bit of a toss-up). Most of the activity I've seen along these lines in the R community has used make ... it's a tradeoff between (1) re-inventing (and polishing) the wheel for the n^th time and (2) getting rid of another dependency. (In contrast to the use of (e.g.) configure and make, consider the pipeline used for installing R itself and constructing and testing packages -- this has moved from a dependence on Perl to being completely self-contained.) Bottom line: I think you could do the scripting in R, but IMO it probably makes the most sense to leave the dependency management to make. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
