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Is this what tools like Nextflow or Snakemake aim to do? I don't know, and I'm genuinely curious, because I'm starting to work in bioinformatics and doing different parts of an analysis pipeline in R and Python seems common, and, necessary really if you want to use certain packages.

I'm wondering if I should devote time to learning Nextflow/Snakemake, or whether the solution that you outlined is "sufficient" (I say "sufficient" in quotes because of course, depends on the use case).