Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

workr 1.1.0

Highlights

• Improved project orchestration with phase-level configuration files, project/phase load-save hooks, optional continue-on-error behavior, and clearer diagnostics for missing paths, empty phases, and workflow failures.

• Added workflow discovery helpers and made workflow loading more predictable, including active/inactive filtering, priority ordering, exact-name matching, and support for the singular inst/workflow directory.

• Added reusable load/save hook registration plus built-in GitHub Actions artifact providers for saving and restoring workflow data between runs.

• Hardened GitHub, manifest, snapshot, and CI automation, including expanded mocked coverage for GitHub-backed workflows.

• Updated examples, documentation, pkgdown configuration, and tests for the new workflow loading, hook, artifact, and project orchestration behavior.

• Fixed schema-enforced timestamp parsing in RunQuery() when inputs mix Date and POSIXct-like values.

workr 1.0.0

Initial Release

{workr} provides a minimal framework for describing and executing step-by-step R data pipelines using YAML-defined workflows.

Core Features

• RunStep() — execute a single workflow step
• RunWorkflow() — execute a full workflow specification (YAML)
• RunWorkflows() — run multiple workflows in sequence
• RunProject() — orchestrate multi-phase workflow pipelines (experimental)
• MakeWorkflowList() — read a folder of YAML workflows into a list
• RunQuery() — execute database queries via DBI/duckdb
• loadExample() — load bundled example workflows for learning and testing

Shiny Demo App

• DemoApp_init() — launch an interactive Shiny app for exploring and running workflows
• Hosted version available at jwildfire.shinyapps.io/workr-demoapp

Package Manifests

• pkgManifest() — resolve GitHub packages to pinned versions with manifest.csv and rproject.toml
• Snapshot branches (ss-*) for reproducible package environments
• GitHub Actions for nightly manifest updates

GitHub Actions

• manifest.yaml — reusable workflow for generating manifest artifacts
• nightly-manifest.yaml — scheduled manifest updates
• R-CMD-check.yaml — R CMD check CI
• R-CMD-check-dev.yaml — development R CMD check CI
• pkgdown-with-examples.yaml — pkgdown site deployment
• pkgdown-cleanup.yaml — pkgdown cleanup

Documentation

• pkgdown site at gilead-biostats.github.io/workr
• Vignettes covering overview, Pharmaverse integration, ADaM/SDTM examples, and visualization