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

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