Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R (adolfoalvarez.cl)
51 points by sinnsro 2 days ago
MostlyStable an 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)
fithisux 7 hours ago
Refreshing to see such articles.