There has been some talk of adding native pipe notation to R (for example here, here, and here). And even a tidyeval/rlang pipe here. I think a critical aspect of such an extension would be to treat such a notation as syntactic sugar and not insist such a pipe match […]
This is a note on debugging magrittr pipelines in R using Bizarro Pipe and eager assignment.
R picked up a nifty way to organize sequential calculations in May of 2014: magrittr by Stefan Milton Bache and Hadley Wickham. magrittr is now quite popular and also has become the backbone of current dplyr practice. If you read my last article on assignment carefully you may have noticed […]