On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 10:30, Joris Meys <jorism...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm largely with Gabriel Becker on this one: if pipes enter base R, they > should be a well thought out and integrated part of the language. > > I do see merit though in providing a pipe in base R. Reason is mainly that > right now there's not a single pipe. A pipe function exists in different > packages, and it's not impossible that at one point piping operators might > behave slightly different depending on the package you load. So I hope > someone from RStudio is reading this thread and decides to do the heavy > lifting for R core. After all, it really is mainly their packages that > would benefit from it.
Completely agree with Gabriel and Joris. > I can't think of a non-tidyverse package that's > easier to use with pipes than without. I can give you one (disclaimer: it's one of my packages): simmer, which is specifically designed to work with pipes, and has nothing to do with the tidyverse. Iñaki ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
