Re: [R] Dependency-aware scripting tools for R

2012-04-19 Thread Aaron Mackey
shameless self-plug: we break out of R to do this, and after many painful years developing and maintaining idiosyncratic Makefiles, we are now using Taverna to (visually) glue together UNIX commands (including R scripts) -- the benefits of which (over make and brethren) is that you can actually *se

Re: [R] Dependency-aware scripting tools for R

2012-04-19 Thread Ben Bolker
Sean Davis 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