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Show a workflow graph as text in your terminal window. [Stable]

Source: R/text_drake_graph.R
text_drake_graph.Rd

This is a low-tech version of vis_drake_graph() and friends. It is designed for when you do not have access to the usual graphics devices for viewing visuals in an interactive R session: for example, if you are logged into a remote machine with SSH and you do not have access to X Window support.

Usage

text_drake_graph(
  ...,
  from = NULL,
  mode = c("out", "in", "all"),
  order = NULL,
  subset = NULL,
  targets_only = FALSE,
  make_imports = TRUE,
  from_scratch = FALSE,
  group = NULL,
  clusters = NULL,
  show_output_files = TRUE,
  nchar = 1L,
  print = TRUE,
  config = NULL
)

Arguments

...

Arguments to make(), such as plan and targets.

from

Optional collection of target/import names. If from is nonempty, the graph will restrict itself to a neighborhood of from. Control the neighborhood with mode and order.

mode

Which direction to branch out in the graph to create a neighborhood around from. Use "in" to go upstream, "out" to go downstream, and "all" to go both ways and disregard edge direction altogether.

order

How far to branch out to create a neighborhood around from. Defaults to as far as possible. If a target is in the neighborhood, then so are all of its custom file_out() files if show_output_files is TRUE. That means the actual graph order may be slightly greater than you might expect, but this ensures consistency between show_output_files = TRUE and show_output_files = FALSE.

subset

Optional character vector. Subset of targets/imports to display in the graph. Applied after from, mode, and order. Be advised: edges are only kept for adjacent nodes in subset. If you do not select all the intermediate nodes, edges will drop from the graph.

targets_only

Logical, whether to skip the imports and only include the targets in the workflow plan.

make_imports

Logical, whether to make the imports first. Set to FALSE to increase speed and risk using obsolete information.

from_scratch

Logical, whether to assume all the targets will be made from scratch on the next make(). Makes all targets outdated, but keeps information about build progress in previous make()s.

group

Optional character scalar, name of the column used to group nodes into columns. All the columns names of your original drake plan are choices. The other choices (such as "status") are column names in the nodes . To group nodes into clusters in the graph, you must also supply the clusters argument.

clusters

Optional character vector of values to cluster on. These values must be elements of the column of the nodes data frame that you specify in the group argument to drake_graph_info().

show_output_files

Logical, whether to include file_out() files in the graph.

nchar

For each node, maximum number of characters of the node label to show. Can be 0, in which case each node is a colored box instead of a node label. Caution: nchar > 0 will mess with the layout.

print

Logical. If TRUE, the graph will print to the console via message(). If FALSE, nothing is printed. However, you still have the visualization because text_drake_graph() and render_text_drake_graph() still invisibly return a character string that you can print yourself with message().

config

Deprecated.

Value

A visNetwork graph.

See also

render_text_drake_graph(), vis_drake_graph(), sankey_drake_graph(), drake_ggraph()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
isolate_example("Quarantine side effects.", {
if (suppressWarnings(require("knitr"))) {
load_mtcars_example() # Get the code with drake_example("mtcars").
# Plot the network graph representation of the workflow.
pkg <- requireNamespace("txtplot", quietly = TRUE) &&
  requireNamespace("visNetwork", quietly = TRUE)
if (pkg) {
text_drake_graph(my_plan)
make(my_plan) # Run the project, build the targets.
text_drake_graph(my_plan) # The black nodes from before are now green.
}
}
})
}