Working with PIP releases

Introduction

Creating releases goes beyond organization, information, and vintage control. The main purpose is having a well-defined structure that enables a clear, efficient and reproducible workflow.

Set up a release

creds <- get_github_creds()
(wr <- setup_working_release(creds = creds))

Notice that, by default, the working release will correspond to the latest release of the most recent PPP round. Also, if you try to setup the release again, you’ll get an error because there is release already in the .pipenv environment.

(wr <- setup_working_release(creds = creds))

If you need to set the environment again, you need to either restart your R session or use argument force = TRUE

The .pipenv environment

The .pipenv environment contains many pieces of information that are use internally by other functions of the PIP ecosystem. For instance, the wr object that is returned invisibly by setup_working_release() is available in

get_from_pipenv("working_release")

Moreover, all the information contained in the old function pip_create_globals() is now available in

gls <- get_from_pipenv("gls")
head(gls)