> I haven't spent much time with dplyr, but I think it does a couple things One of the cooler features in dplyr is the '%.%' operator which allows you to chain

> I haven't spent much time with dplyr, but I think it does a couple things One of the cooler features in dplyr is the '%.%' operator which allows you to chain operations. So you can write something like this in dplyr: Batting %.% group_by(playerID) %.% summarise(total = sum(G)) %.% arrange(desc(total)) %.% head(5) which is very readable. That example stolen shamelessly from [1] ;) [1] -- http://blog.rstudio.org/2014/01/17/introducing-dplyr/ http://blog.rstudio.org/2014/01/17/introducing-dplyr/