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magrittr’s Doppelgänger

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 […]

The Case For Using -> In R

R has a number of assignment operators (at least “<-“, “=“, and “->“; plus “<<-” and “->>” which have different semantics). The R-style guides routinely insist on “<-” as being the only preferred form. In this note we are going to try to make the case for “->” when using […]