wBuild

Automatic build tool for R Reports

Documentation

Full documentation is available at https://wbuild.readthedocs.io

Features

• Supports reproducible research
  • Append R-markdown scripts to the Snakemake pipeline
• Render the R scripts to a structured web page
• Snakemake rules written directly in the header of scripts
  • Dependencies updated automatically!

Installation

Install using pip:

• pip install wBuild

See “Installation” tab in the documentation for more details.

Getting started

• Navigate to an empty directory
• Run wbuild demo. This will create a wBuild demo project with various examples
• Explore the files in Scripts/
• Run snakemake to build the project
• Open Output/html/index.html in your web browser
  • There you will find useful and understandable examples of features and operations with wBuild

Usage

• Navigate to the root of your project (new or existing)
• Run wbuild init
• Run snakemake

GitHub

wBuild is an open-source software. The source-code is available at https://github.com/gagneurlab/wBuild.

Credits

Leonhard Wachutka