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There are numerous tools like scons, make, ruffus, ant, rake, etc. that can be used to build complex pipelines based on task dependencies. These tools are written in a variety of languages, but I have not seen such a thing for R. Is anyone aware of a package available? The goal is to be able to develop robust bioinformatic pipelines driven by scripts written in R. Thanks, Sean

Hi, In support of reproducible research at my Institute, I seek an approach to re-creating the R environments in which an analysis has been conducted. By which I mean, the exact version of R and the exact version of all packages used in a particular R session. I am seeking comments/criticism of this as a goal, and of the following outline of an approach: === When all the steps to an workflow