Dot-Pipe: an S3 Extensible Pipe for R

Pipe notation is popular with a large league of R users, with magrittr being the dominant realization. However, this should not be enough to consider piping in R as a settled topic that is not subject to further discussion, experimentation, or possibility for improvement. To promote innovation opportunities, we describe the wrapr R package and “dot-pipe” notation, a well behaved sequencing operator with S3 extensibility. We include a number of examples of using this pipe to interact with and extend other R packages.

John Mount , Nina Zumel
2018-08-17

CRAN packages used

data.table, magrittr, dplyr, future, rmonad, pipeR, backpipe, drake, wrapr, ggplot2, rquery

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HighPerformanceComputing, Databases, Finance, Graphics, ModelDeployment, Phylogenetics, WebTechnologies

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Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Mount & Zumel, "Dot-Pipe: an S3 Extensible Pipe for R", The R Journal, 2018

BibTeX citation

@article{RJ-2018-042,
  author = {Mount, John and Zumel, Nina},
  title = {Dot-Pipe: an S3 Extensible Pipe for R},
  journal = {The R Journal},
  year = {2018},
  note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2018-042},
  doi = {10.32614/RJ-2018-042},
  volume = {10},
  issue = {2},
  issn = {2073-4859},
  pages = {309-316}
}