Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R

I only recently discovered \(x) like function wrapping is not required! Where magrittr::%>% uses ., base R's |> can use _, but only for named arguments

     penguins |>
      rpart::rpart(species ~ ., method = "class", data = _) |>
      rpart.plot::prp(extra = 4)

Refreshing to see such articles.