Offload Routine Tasks to RStudio Jobs • job

I tend to engage in procrastination if my console is busy for more than 10 seconds. Using job() keeps me in the flow. Here are some commands I regularly job, either via code or via the addins.

Heavy inferential tasks

Everything involving MCMC in Bayesian Inference: brms, mcp, blavaan.
Cross-validation and hyperparameter tuning in machine learning, e.g., in tidymodels or mlr3.

Build output

Using empty jobs (job::empty() or “empty” addin) makes a lot of sense for these:

update.packages(ask = FALSE)
devtools::build()
pkgdown::build_site(preview = FALSE)
knitr::knit()

Text output

Wrap these in job::job({print(<command>)}) to print the text inside the job. Now you can, in good conscience, clean your console because you know that the important output is saved in a job.

devtools::test() (see more in testing code)
brms::loo_compare(model1, model2)