Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R

4 comments

• MostlyStable 1 hour ago
  I had always wondered about the magrittr package name, but never enough to actually go find out. That's a cool origin.
• wwfn 7 hours ago
  I only recently discovered \(x) like function wrapping is not required! Where magrittr::%>% uses ., base R's |> can use _, but only for named arguments

       penguins |>
        rpart::rpart(species ~ ., method = "class", data = _) |>
        rpart.plot::prp(extra = 4)
  

  EDIT: maybe that wasn't the case in 2021 when the blog post was written
• fithisux 7 hours ago
  Refreshing to see such articles.