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Select target names from a target list

Source: R/tar_select_names.R
tar_select_names.Rd

Select the names of targets from a target list.

Usage

tar_select_names(targets, ...)

Arguments

targets

A list of target definition objects as described in the "Target definition objects" section. It does not matter how nested the list is as long as the only leaf nodes are targets.

...

One or more comma-separated tidyselect expressions, e.g. starts_with("prefix"). Just like ... in dplyr::select().

Value

A character vector of target names.

Target definition objects

Most tarchetypes functions are target factories, which means they return target definition objects or lists of target definition objects. target definition objects represent skippable steps of the analysis pipeline as described at https://books.ropensci.org/targets/. Please read the walkthrough at https://books.ropensci.org/targets/walkthrough.html to understand the role of target definition objects in analysis pipelines.

For developers, https://wlandau.github.io/targetopia/contributing.html#target-factories explains target factories (functions like this one which generate targets) and the design specification at https://books.ropensci.org/targets-design/ details the structure and composition of target definition objects.

See also

Other target selection: tar_select_targets()

Examples

if (identical(Sys.getenv("TAR_LONG_EXAMPLES"), "true")) {
targets::tar_dir({ # tar_dir() runs code from a temporary directory.
targets <- list(
  list(
    targets::tar_target(x, 1),
    targets::tar_target(y1, 2)
  ),
  targets::tar_target(y2, 3),
  targets::tar_target(z, 4)
)
tar_select_names(targets, starts_with("y"), contains("z"))
})
}