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In dkary/dataflow: Visualize R Code with Data Flow Graphs

Research

Taking a look at what's out there, whether this tool would be useful, and how I might implement it.

Useful Coding Info

• https://renkun.me/2020/11/08/using-parse-data-to-analyze-r-code/
• Advanced R chapter on Expressions

Interactivity

Looking at Graphviz interactivity options:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14838820/interactive-graphviz-viewer-with-basic-node-edge-filtering
  • https://gephi.org

Does it exist?

• Find out what exists out there.
  • This AWS GetDataflowGraph seems to be exactly what I'm trying to do (but just with python, and part of AWS I guess): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/webapi/API_GetDataflowGraph.html

Is there interest?

People have asked about this online:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61827351/static-dataflow-graph-generator-for-python
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14166151/find-dependencies-in-a-python-source-script
  • This one has some example code that uses the tokenize module

IBM Tool

IBM may have done this, but it's not really clear how it works:

• https://github.com/ibm/rflowgraph
• https://github.com/ibm/pyflowgraph

A paper on the topic (Semantic flow graph): https://www.epatters.org/assets/papers/2018-semantic-enrichment.pdf

dkary/dataflow documentation built on Dec. 20, 2021, 12:06 a.m.