drake (version 7.3.0)

knitr_in: Declare knitr/rmarkdown source files as dependencies.

Description

knitr_in() marks individual knitr/R Markdown reports as dependencies. In drake, these reports are pieces of the pipeline. R Markdown is a great tool for displaying precomputed results, but not for running a large workflow from end to end. These reports should do as little computation as possible.

Usage

knitr_in(...)

Arguments

...

Character strings. File paths of knitr/rmarkdown source files supplied to a command in your workflow plan data frame.

Value

A character vector of declared input file paths.

Details

Unlike file_in() and file_out(), knitr_in() does not work with entire directories.

See Also

file_in(), file_out(), ignore()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
isolate_example("Contain side effects", {
if (suppressWarnings(require("knitr"))) {
# `knitr_in()` is like `file_in()`
# except that it analyzes active code chunks in your `knitr`
# source file and detects non-file dependencies.
# That way, updates to the right dependencies trigger rebuilds
# in your report.
# The mtcars example (`drake_example("mtcars")`)
# already has a demonstration
load_mtcars_example()
make(my_plan)
# Now how did drake magically know that
# `small`, `large`, and `coef_regression2_small` were
# dependencies of the output file `report.md`?
# because the command in the workflow plan had
# `knitr_in("report.Rmd")` in it, so drake knew
# to analyze the active code chunks. There, it spotted
# where `small`, `large`, and `coef_regression2_small`
# were read from the cache using calls to `loadd()` and `readd()`.
}
})
# }

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