Comparing R's {targets} and dbt for Data Engineering

I&rsquo;m getting more and more into data engineering these days and having used R for a long time, I&rsquo;m seeing a lot of problems that look nail-shaped to my R-shaped hammer. The available tools to solve those problems exist for (presumably) very good reasons, so I wanted to take some time to dig into how to use them and compare their workflows to what I would otherwise naively do in R. I…