What is pipe operator?
Accordingly, what is pipe operator in R?
Introduction# Pipe operators, available in magrittr , dplyr , and other R packages, process a data-object using a sequence of operations by passing the result of one step as input for the next step using infix-operators rather than the more typical R method of nested function calls.
- open your RStudio.
- click Tools -> Keyboard Shortcuts.
- type the key value: pipe, you will find the shortcut named by Insert Pipe Operator.
- set the shortcut you want.
Subsequently, one may also ask, what does %>% mean in Dplyr?
dplyr is a new package which provides a set of tools for efficiently manipulating datasets in R. dplyr is the next iteration of plyr , focussing on only data frames. dplyr is faster, has a more consistent API and should be easier to use.
My Definition: A pipe function takes an n sequence of operations; in which each operation takes an argument; process it; and gives the processed output as an input for the next operation in the sequence. The result of a pipe function is a function that is a bundled up version of the sequence of operations.