As a point of minor historic curiosity, the pipe operator in R actually predates dplyr and was invented independently multiple times by various people who notic

As a point of minor historic curiosity, the pipe operator in R actually predates dplyr and was invented independently multiple times by various people who noticed that the Unix model translates well to data transformations in R (F# also has a pipe but I'm not aware of anybody using F# as an inspiration for the pipe in R).