README.md

makeutils

Utility functions to parse and work with Makefiles

This R package contains utility functions for working with Makefiles. Its primary purpose is to extract rules and create a tidy data.frame (more accurately, a "tibble") with a mapping between targets and dependencies.

Installation

devtools::install_github("edonnachie/makeutils")

Basic use

library(makeutils)
parse_makefile("Makefile")

Related Packages

Other packages are available to create Makefiles using R (MakefileR, datamake). These packages appear to be dormant, with focus turning to more modern systems such as (drake).

License

This package is released under a GPL-3 license. It is provided as-is with no guarantee for functionality.



edonnachie/makeutils documentation built on May 27, 2019, 2:09 p.m.