---
title: "RAVE Pipeline Markdown Template"
output:
  html_document: default
  pdf_document: default
---

```{r setup, include = FALSE}
# This code block sets up the engine environment
# Please do not remove me
raveio::pipeline_setup_rmd("TEMPLATE")
```

## Introduction

A RAVE pipeline markdown is an interactive notebook that can keep your notes, code blocks, and corresponding results together, generating reports in various formats such as `PDF`, `html`, `Word`, `PowerPoint`. 

The note parts are simply `markdown`s - the same as `jupyter notebook`, or github documentations. The code blocks support `R`, `python`, `c++`. When you hit the `Knit` button in this code editor panel, the r-markdown file will be compiled, generating reproducible documentation.

With carefully designed structures, this r-markdown file will automatically generate `RAVE` pipeline scripts during the compilation. The pipeline script can be used by `RAVE` to convert your pipeline into interactive dashboard application. (This feature is currently under development)

## "RAVE" Pipeline Code Block

A `RAVE` pipeline markdown code block starts with ` ```{rave ... `. The block label following `rave` informative description of the target. After the target, the following RAVE-specific parameters configures how the block should be treated:

* `language`: specifies the programming language used; choices are: `R`, `python`
* `export`: variable name to be exported that will be available to the rest chunks
* `depends`: indicates current block depends on variables generated from other blocks; this helps `RAVE` to build non-interactive pipeline scripts internally. For blocks written in `R`, the dependence can be automatically determined.

Other parameters are available at [this `rmarkdown` book](https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/)

## An Example

Variables in the `settings.yaml` can be used directly

```{rave generate_input_data, language = "R", export = "input_data"}
input_data <- data.frame(
  x = runif(n),
  y = runif(n)
)
```

Using `cue="always"` to never skip the target

```{rave plot_data, language = "R", export = "plot_data", cue = "always"}
plot_data <- Sys.time()
plot(input_data, pch = pch, col = col)
```


## Build, Visualize, & Run

Please make sure the following code block is at the end of your pipeline file. This block will build the pipeline and generate a `make-TEMPLATE.R` script with your pipeline markdown file. `RAVE` will use the generated pipeline script to execute the pipeline in the dashboard application, or in massive production mode.

```{r build, echo=FALSE, results='hide'}
build_pipeline(make_file = "make-TEMPLATE.R")
```


Once the pipeline script `make-TEMPLATE.R` is built, you can visualize and execute the pipeline without the need of re-knit this document. Notice we use `r` block instead of `rave`. (This is because the code blocks are not part of pipeline targets.)

```{r visualize, echo=FALSE}
Sys.setenv("RAVE_PIPELINE" = normalizePath("."))
try({
  raveio::pipeline_visualize()
}, silent = TRUE)
```







