Read the metadata of all recorded targets and global objects.
Usage
tar_meta(
names = NULL,
fields = NULL,
targets_only = FALSE,
complete_only = FALSE,
store = targets::tar_config_get("store")
)
Arguments
- names
Optional, names of the targets. If supplied,
tar_meta()
only returns metadata on these targets. You can supply symbols ortidyselect
helpers likeany_of()
andstarts_with()
. IfNULL
, all names are selected.- fields
Optional, names of columns/fields to select. If supplied,
tar_meta()
only returns the selected metadata columns. IfNULL
, all fields are selected. You can supply symbols ortidyselect
helpers likeany_of()
andstarts_with()
. Thename
column is always included first no matter what you select. Choices:name
: name of the target or global object.type
: type of the object: either"function"
or"object"
for global objects, and"stem"
,"branch"
,"map"
, or"cross"
for targets.data
: hash of the output data.command
: hash of the target's deparsed command.depend
: hash of the immediate upstream dependencies of the target.seed
: random number generator seed with which the target was built. A target's random number generator seed is a deterministic function of its name. In this way, each target runs with a reproducible seed so someone else running the same pipeline should get the same results, and no two targets in the same pipeline share the same seed. (Even dynamic branches have different names and thus different seeds.) You can recover the seed of a completed target withtar_meta(your_target, seed)
and runset.seed()
on the result to locally recreate the target's initial RNG state.path
: A list column of paths to target data. Usually, each element is a single path, but there could be multiple paths per target for dynamic files (i.e.tar_target(format = "file")
).time
:POSIXct
object with the time the target's data in storage was last modified. If the target stores no local file, then the time stamp corresponds to the time the target last ran successfully. Only targets that run commands have time stamps: just non-branching targets and individual dynamic branches. Displayed in the current time zone of the system. If there are multiple outputs for that target, as with file targets, then the maximum time is shown.size
: hash of the sum of all the bytes of the files atpath
.bytes
: total file size in bytes of all files inpath
.format
: character, one of the admissible data storage formats. See theformat
argument in thetar_target()
help file for details.iteration
: character, either"list"
or"vector"
to describe the iteration and aggregation mode of the target. See theiteration
argument in thetar_target()
help file for details.parent
: for branches, name of the parent pattern.children
: list column, names of the children of targets that have them. These include buds of stems and branches of patterns.seconds
: number of seconds it took to run the target.warnings
: character string of warning messages from the last run of the target. Only the first 50 warnings are available, and only the first 2048 characters of the concatenated warning messages.error
: character string of the error message if the target errored.
- targets_only
Logical, whether to just show information about targets or also return metadata on functions and other global objects.
- complete_only
Logical, whether to return only complete rows (no
NA
values).- store
Character of length 1, path to the
targets
data store. Defaults totar_config_get("store")
, which in turn defaults to_targets/
. When you set this argument, the value oftar_config_get("store")
is temporarily changed for the current function call. Seetar_config_get()
andtar_config_set()
for details about how to set the data store path persistently for a project.
Details
A metadata row only updates when the target is built.
tar_progress()
shows information on targets that are running.
That is why the number of branches may disagree between tar_meta()
and tar_progress()
for actively running pipelines.
See also
Other data:
tar_crew()
,
tar_load_everything()
,
tar_load_raw()
,
tar_load()
,
tar_objects()
,
tar_pid()
,
tar_process()
,
tar_read_raw()
,
tar_read()
Examples
if (identical(Sys.getenv("TAR_EXAMPLES"), "true")) { # for CRAN
tar_dir({ # tar_dir() runs code from a temp dir for CRAN.
tar_script({
list(
tar_target(x, seq_len(2)),
tar_target(y, 2 * x, pattern = map(x))
)
}, ask = FALSE)
tar_make()
tar_meta()
tar_meta(starts_with("y_")) # see also any_of()
})
}