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List old targets

Source: R/tar_older.R
tar_older.Rd

List all the targets whose last successful run occurred before a certain point in time. Combine with tar_invalidate(), you can use tar_older() to automatically rerun targets at regular intervals. See the examples for a demonstration.

Usage

tar_older(
  time,
  names = NULL,
  inclusive = FALSE,
  store = targets::tar_config_get("store")
)

Arguments

time

A POSIXct object of length 1, time threshold. Targets older than this time stamp are returned. For example, if time = Sys.time() - as.difftime(1, units = "weeks") then tar_older() returns targets older than one week ago.

names

Names of eligible targets. Targets excluded from names will not be returned even if they are old. The object supplied to names should be NULL or a tidyselect expression like any_of() or starts_with() from tidyselect itself, or tar_described_as() to select target names based on their descriptions.

inclusive

Logical of length 1, whether to include targets completed at exactly the time given.

store

Character of length 1, path to the targets data store. Defaults to tar_config_get("store"), which in turn defaults to _targets/. When you set this argument, the value of tar_config_get("store") is temporarily changed for the current function call. See tar_config_get() and tar_config_set() for details about how to set the data store path persistently for a project.

Value

A character vector of names of old targets with recorded timestamp metadata.

Details

Only applies to targets with recorded time stamps: just non-branching targets and individual dynamic branches. As of targets version 0.6.0, these time stamps are available for these targets regardless of storage format. Earlier versions of targets do not record time stamps for remote storage such as format = "url" or repository = "aws" in tar_target().

See also

Other time: tar_newer(), tar_timestamp()

Examples

if (identical(Sys.getenv("TAR_EXAMPLES"), "true")) { # for CRAN
tar_dir({ # tar_dir() runs code from a temp dir for CRAN.
tar_script({
  library(targets)
  library(tarchetypes)
  list(tar_target(x, seq_len(2)))
}, ask = FALSE)
tar_make()
# targets older than 1 week ago
tar_older(Sys.time() - as.difftime(1, units = "weeks"))
# targets older than 1 week from now
tar_older(Sys.time() + as.difftime(1, units = "weeks"))
# Everything is still up to date.
tar_make()
# Invalidate all targets targets older than 1 week from now
# so they run on the next tar_make().
invalidate_these <- tar_older(Sys.time() + as.difftime(1, units = "weeks"))
tar_invalidate(any_of(invalidate_these))
tar_make()
})
}