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                                            Rich FitzJohn

To pad or not to pad in encode64()

Thanks for the extensive testing - much appreciated! > I noticed that base64url uses C code and focuses on speed. Do you think storr might see some performance gains if...

Nested functions

crossreferencing #121

Parallelise tasks with `parallel`

Hi Will - with the current interfaces available to us in the `parallel` package, the scope for using it for this is pretty narrow; it will work in a few...

Tabular dependencies

Thanks for the suggestion. This is something I want too, especially as this will become really powerful when remake supports parallel execution (it's in the pipeline). The basic idea I...

Tabular dependencies

Update on a very old thread: I gave up on the approach I started here as it was getting really complicated. Once we get the package tidied up, I'd like...

File targets can't be directories

It would be good to see if it could be made to work. This was always a huge frustration working with make, and I think it's a common use case....

List/array targets

So, somewhere I implemented a whole pile of list target support, got into a massive tangle, threw my hands in the air in despair and ripped it all out again....

Passing strings to functions

Use the `I()` wrapper. So it'd look like `your_function(I("PET"))`

Passing strings to functions

If you've seen details to be aware of, please add them, sure.

Passing strings to functions

Thanks will; I agree that the error messages could be more informative, but working out the context is the trick. Any chance you could give a minimal example or describe...