On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 at 19:54, Hugh Marera <hugh.mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] it is not very difficult to find functions in dplyr or data.table or > indeed other packages that one may wish to be in base R. Examples, for me, > could include data.table::fread
You have utils::read.table and the like. > dplyr::group_by & dplyr::summari[sZ]e combo base::tapply, base::by, stats::aggregate. > [...] Many R users don't even know that they are installing the magrittr > package. And that's one of the reasons why the proposal makes sense. Another one is that the pipe plays well with many base R functions, such as subset, transform, merge, aggregate and reshape. Iñaki ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel