Handling report ordering / configs

[thibautjombart]

A common workflow within a factory is to have several single-purpose Rmds with some inter-dependencies, where one report uses outputs of another one. For instance, the flow of dependencies could go:

clean_data.Rmd ==> descriptive_analysis.Rmd ==> final_report.Rmd
clean_data.Rmd ==> some_other_analysis.Rmd ==> final_report.Rmd 

A simple way to handle that could be having a small script at the root of the factory e.g. run_factory.R with:

reportfactory::compile_reports("clean_data")
reportfactory::compile_reports("analysis")
reportfactory::compile_reports("final")

But if we start looping over params and subfolder, this becomes a bit clunky. I think putting these info in a data.frame and looping over the rows might be something to try. Will report back when I have an example.