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 Through writing functions you can reduce this back and forth, and create a more efficient workflow for yourself.
 When you find the bug, you fix it in a single place, the function you made, and each subsequent call of that function will now be fixed.
 
+Furthermore, `targets` makes extensive use of custom functions, so a basic understanding of how they work is very important to successfully using it.
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 ### Writing a function
 
 There is not much difference between writing your own function and writing other code in R, you are still coding with R!