magrittr - Ceci n'est pas un pipe

The magrittr package offers a set of operators which promote semantics that will improve your code by

• structuring sequences of data operations left-to-right (as opposed to from the inside and out),

• avoiding nested function calls,

• minimizing the need for local variables and function definitions, and

• making it easy to add steps anywhere in the sequence of operations.

The operators pipe their left-hand side values forward into expressions that appear on the right-hand side, i.e. one can replace f(x) with x %>% f, where %>% is the (main) pipe-operator.

Details

Consider the example below. Four operations are performed to arrive at the desired data set, and they are written in a natural order: the same as the order of execution. Also, no temporary variables are needed. If yet another operation is required, it is straight-forward to add to the sequence of operations whereever it may be needed.

For a more detailed introduction see the vignette (vignette("magrittr")) or the documentation pages for the available operators:

%>%	pipe.
%T>%	tee pipe.
%<>%	assignment pipe.
%$%	exposition pipe.

See also

Useful links:

• https://magrittr.tidyverse.org

• https://github.com/tidyverse/magrittr

• Report bugs at https://github.com/tidyverse/magrittr/issues

Author

Maintainer: Lionel Henry lionel@rstudio.com

Authors:

• Stefan Milton Bache stefan@stefanbache.dk (Original author and creator of magrittr) [copyright holder]

• Hadley Wickham hadley@rstudio.com

Other contributors:

• RStudio [copyright holder, funder]

Examples

if (FALSE) {

the_data <-
  read.csv('/path/to/data/file.csv') %>%
  subset(variable_a > x) %>%
  transform(variable_c = variable_a/variable_b) %>%
  head(100)
}