Drake is my new favourite R package. Drake is a tool for orchestrating complicated workflows. You piece together a plan based on some high-level, abstract functions. These functions should be pure — they need to be defined by their inputs only, not relying on any predefined variables that aren’t in the function signature. Then, drake will take the steps in that plan and work out how to run it. Here’s how I’ve defined the plan above:| mdneuzerling.com
These are my notes for the super helpful tutorial given by Elizabeth Stark on the first day of the UseR 2018 conference. This was an introduction to Docker for R users who have no prior experience with Docker (which was me!). Elizabeth’s slides Elizabeth’s exercises and examples This tutorial took me through setting up an RStudio Server container. I’m on a Linux machine, but I’m particularly interested by the idea that you could run these traditionally Linux-only servers on a Windows ...| mdneuzerling.com