[help] Show skipped targets by name

[eheinzen]

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Description

In previous versions of targets (1.9.ish and below), the skipped targets would be named by the reporter and show as having been skipped. Now the reporters only show how many targets were skipped, but not which ones they were. Is there a way to get them to name the skipped targets? E.g., I want to see "target_1 was skipped", instead of "10 targets were skipped".

[wlandau]

You can set reporter = "verbose" in tar_make().

[eheinzen]

Thank you so much for getting back so quickly!!

I tried that for this simple plan:

library(targets)
library(tarchetypes)

tar_plan(
  a = 1,
  b = 2
)

If a is up-to-date, and I run tar_make(reporter = "verbose"), it says:

> tar_make(reporter = "verbose")
skipped 1 targets
dispatched target b
completed target b [0ms, 50 B]
✔ ended pipeline [132ms, 1 completed, 1 skipped]

What I want it to say is "skipped target a", which is what it says when I revert to v1.9.1:

> tar_make()
✔ skipped target a
▶ dispatched target b
● completed target b [0 seconds, 50 bytes]
▶ ended pipeline [0.136 seconds]

Basically, I want to see what the pipeline has considered already, so I can tell what is coming up as I monitor it.

[wlandau]

Sorry, I forgot that I removed explicit mentions of skipped targets from the reporters. But you can still use functions like tar_skipped() and tar_progress() to get information on individual skipped targets. c.f. https://docs.ropensci.org/targets/reference/index.html#progress