Comment by almostjazz

17 hours ago

Side comment: |> and %>% aren't the same btw! The newish base pipe (|>) is faster but doesn't support using the dot (.) placeholder to pipe into something other than the first argument of a function, which can sometimes make things a little cleaner.

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sinnsro  14 hours ago

The base pipe has an underscore as a placeholder. From the docs:

Usage:

     lhs |> rhs

Arguments:

     lhs: expression producing a value.

     rhs: a call expression.

Details: [...]

     It is also possible to use a named argument with the placeholder
     ‘_’ in the ‘rhs’ call to specify where the ‘lhs’ is to be
     inserted.  The placeholder can only appear once on the ‘rhs’.

  • Zedseayou  9 hours ago

    I believe this wasn't added in the initial implementation of the base pipe so some didn't realize it got included later, and still does not let you use constructs like e.g. combining multiple transformations of the input on the rhs. But for most purposes it's certainly sufficient