magrittr
A third-party R package released by Stefan Milton Bache around 2014. It introduced the %>% pipe operator, which passes the result on the left-hand side as the first argument to the function on the right-hand side, substantially simplifying the writing of data-processing code in R.
Timeline (last 90 days)
In the R ecosystem, the pipe operator was first popularized through the magrittr package, with its signature symbol being %>%.
The name of the magrittr package pays homage to Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, corresponding to his famous painting 'The Treachery of Images' (This Is Not a Pipe).
The magrittr package was released by Stefan Milton Bache around 2014.
magrittr provides the placeholder . for passing the left-hand value into a non-first argument position, as well as the bidirectional assignment pipe %<>%.
|> does not support extended symbols in magrittr such as %T>% (a debugging-purpose tee pipe).
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In the R ecosystem, the pipe operator was first popularized through the magrittr package, with its signature symbol being %>%.
50%UnverifiedThe name of the magrittr package pays homage to Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, corresponding to his famous painting 'The Treachery of Images' (This Is Not a Pipe).
50%UnverifiedThe magrittr package was released by Stefan Milton Bache around 2014.
50%Unverifiedmagrittr provides the placeholder . for passing the left-hand value into a non-first argument position, as well as the bidirectional assignment pipe %<>%.
50%Unverified|> does not support extended symbols in magrittr such as %T>% (a debugging-purpose tee pipe).
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