The drake R package (Landau 2018) is a workflow manager and computational engine for
data science projects. Its primary objective is to keep results up to date with the underlying
code and data. When it runs a project, drake detects any pre-existing output and refreshes
the pieces that are outdated or missing. Not every runthrough starts from scratch, and the
final answers are reproducible. With a user-friendly R-focused interface, comprehensive
documentation, and extensive implicit parallel computing support, drake surpasses the …