2020-05-05_intro-to-drake.Rmd

# 2020-05-05: Introduction to drake

Much of 2DII's value stems from our ability to produce quality, reproducible reports. Sometimes, this involves us tweaking portions of the analysis, and manually re-running (hoping that we haven't broken anything downstream). Drake is a tool that aims to automate and facilitate this process.

At this meetup we watched a 6' video introducing the drake package, and discussed how 2DII might benefit from drake. Jackson (\@jdhoffa) lead the meeting and rose lots of interest. Many folks asked questions and Alex (\@AlexAxthelm) answered them (Alex co-authors drake). 

## Resources

* [Recording](https://youtu.be/_Cl4odbiG78)
* [The drake R Package User Manual](https://books.ropensci.org/drake/index.html).
* [Benefits of a function-based diet (The {drake} post)](https://milesmcbain.xyz/the-drake-post/).