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Well, afaik it isn't really a pipe but syntactic sugar. A pipe streams data from one output stream to an input stream. This rewrites the code as if the input we
by stewbrew 6y ago
Well, afaik it isn't really a pipe but syntactic sugar. A pipe streams data from one output stream to an input stream. This rewrites the code as if the input were passed as an argument.
- creddit 6y agoThat's exactly right. This is useful in the context of a large portion of R's most popular data wrangling packages known as the "Tidyverse". These packages used an equivalent pipe function that was non-native and had some perf and understandability issues.
- epistasis 6y ago|> This is not a pipe -René Magritte