[klmr]

> I recall when the pipe operator was first being proposed the argument for it was that it'd enable workflows that felt more like Excel.

Where are you getting that from? To start with the pipe operator has been independently reinvented multiple times in R, and neither ‘magrittr’ nor ‘dplyr’ were the first to introduce the pipe operator into R. And (at least when I was exposed to it), the pipe operator had nothing whatsoever to do with Excel. Instead, it was an attempt to introduce the composability concepts from the UNIX shell and Haskell composition into R.

[jghn]

You have me second guessing myself, that perhaps I’m conflating it with the convo around dplyr in it’s early days

EDIT: I found the conversation in question but it involved deleted tweets. And those deleted tweets are the one that reference the package name. Sigh. It was just after the release of magrittr and several months after dplyr