simplePipes

Basic Pipes

Basic pipes are used for chaining (rather than nesting) commands. They assume that the piped values are the first and only arguments passed to the next command.

• Input Data
• Standard R Syntax
• Native Pipe
• Forward Basic Pipe
• Backward Basic Pipe

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Input Data

First, name a variable and assign an array of values back to it.

variable <- c(1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 15)

Though it’s not commonly demonstrated, R does permit forward assignment of vales to a variable.

c(1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 15) -> variable

Standard R Syntax

In standard R syntax, get the mean of the variable.

mean(variable)

## [1] 6.833333

Native Pipe

After version 4.1, R includes a native forward pipe. Here, variable is piped directly to get its mean.

variable |> mean()

## [1] 6.833333

Forward Basic Pipe

Using the forward basic pipe, identify the variable and then get its mean.

variable %>% mean

## [1] 6.833333

Backward Basic Pipe

Using the backward basic pipe, get the mean of the variable.

mean %<% variable

## [1] 6.833333

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