ropensci/drake: Improved visuals
William Michael Landau, William Michael Landau, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Alex Axthelm, Miles McBain, Kirill Müller, TJ Mahr, brendanf, Kendon Bell, Timothy Mastny, Rainer M. Krug, Chris Muir, Brianna McHorse, Xianying Tan, Xavier Laviron, Shinya Uryu, Patrick Schratz, Maëlle Salmon, , Jasper, Hugo Gruson · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2019
Version 7.2.0 drake version 7.2.0 is being released early in order to ensure compatibility with development testthat, re https://github.com/ropensci/drake/issues/849. Mildly breaking changes In the DSL (e.g. drake_plan(x = target(..., transform = map(...))) avoid inserting extra dots in target names when the grouping variables are character vectors (#847). Target names come out much nicer this way, but those name changes will invalidate some targets (i.e. they need to be rebuilt with make()). Bug fixes Use config$jobs_preprocess (local jobs) in several places where drake was incorrectly using config$jobs (meant for targets). Allow loadd(x, deps = TRUE, config = your_config) to work even if x is not cached (#830). Required disabling tidyselect functionality when deps TRUE. There is a new note in the help file about this, and an informative console message prints out on loadd(deps = TRUE, tidyselect = TRUE). The default value of tidyselect is now !deps. Minor: avoid printing messages and warnings twice to the console (#829). Ensure compatibility with testthat >= 2.0.1.9000. New features In drake_plan() transformations, allow the user to refer to a target's own name using a special .id_chr symbol, which is treated like a character string. Add a transparency argument to drake_ggraph() and render_drake_ggraph() to disable transparency in the rendered graph. Useful for R installations without transparency support. Enhancements Use a custom layout to improve node positions and aspect ratios of vis_drake_graph() and drake_ggraph() displays. Only activated in vis_drake_graph() when there are at least 10 nodes distributed in both the vertical and horizontal directions. Allow nodes to be dragged both vertically and horizontally in vis_drake_graph() and render_drake_graph(). Prevent dots from showing up in target names when you supply grouping variables to transforms in drake_plan() (#847). Do not keep drake plans (drake_plan()) inside drake_config() objects. When other bottlenecks are removed, this will reduce the burden on memory (re #800). Do not retain the targets argument inside drake_config() objects. This is to reduce memory consumption. Deprecate the layout and direction arguments of vis_drake_graph() and render_drake_graph(). Direction is now always left to right and the layout is always Sugiyama. Write the cache log file in CSV format (now drake_cache.csv by default) to avoid issues with spaces (e.g. entry names with spaces in them, such as "file report.Rmd")`.