Getting Started with Drake in R
Recently I got interested in using the xaringan
package for creating HTML based R Markdown documents because I could use the widgetframe
package to embed htmlwidgets
as responsive iframes (I had created some spinning 3D visulizations with pseudo-coloring I wanted to present interactively).
xaringan
, it’s a R
pacakges for creating slideshows with remark.js
through R Markdown.
Around the same time I learnt about Drake
(or “Data Frames in R for Make”) which is an amazing a time-saving reproducible build system for data scientist specifically tailored to R
. The pacakge makes use of the futures
package allowing the use of parallel computing on high-performance computing systems.
I recently gave a talk at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute talking about the advantages of Drake (and a few other interesting projects).
The slides can be found here