[help] Should the current github versions of crew, crew.cluster, and targets invalidate pipelines made with the CRAN version?

[kendonB]

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Should the current github versions of crew, crew.cluster, and targets invalidate pipelines made with the CRAN version?

Trying to figure out which is more likely to result in a valid pipeline in future versions.

[wlandau]

crew and crew.cluster are independent from the persistent data storage of reproducible pipelines, so they shouldn't invalidate any targets. But there are a couple changes in the targets package that will unavoidably invalidate most pipelines and cause them to rerun. When that happens, I write about the details in NEWS.md: https://github.com/ropensci/targets/blob/main/NEWS.md#invalidating-changes. I only make these kinds of changes when I absolutely have to.

[wlandau]

It's always good to use renv to lock down the version of targets you are using for each specific project.

[kendonB]

Gotcha - I was noticing the make process hanging on Windows after moving a pipeline back from Linux (with the development versions) so reverted to CRAN. I will try to reproduce in a couple of days once deadlines pass.