[Rd] should base R have a piping operator ?

[Lionel Henry]

> On 7 Oct 2019, at 15:36, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  I think that could be done after parsing at run-time, as described in my earlier message.

Good point.


> P.S.  Were you just using |> to save typing, or is there a proposal to add a new operator to the language?  That would need parser changes.

Just a hypothetical native pipe for which the parser would automatically
wrap the arguments in srcref-carrying braces. Then we get step-debugging
of pipelines in all editors.


Best,
Lionel
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