I'm still not entirely convinced that pipes aren't an anti-pattern. Absolutely an improvement over nested function calls:
a(b(c(d))) vs d |> c |> b |> a
but I'm not convinced pipes are better than more verbose code that explains each step:
step1 = c(d)
step2 = b(step1)
result = a(step2)
I've written a lot of tidy R and do understand the specific use cases where it really doesn't make sense to use the more verbose format, but generally find when I'm building complex mathematical models the verbose method is much easier to understand.
a(b(c(d))) vs d |> c |> b |> a
but I'm not convinced pipes are better than more verbose code that explains each step:
step1 = c(d)
step2 = b(step1)
result = a(step2)
I've written a lot of tidy R and do understand the specific use cases where it really doesn't make sense to use the more verbose format, but generally find when I'm building complex mathematical models the verbose method is much easier to understand.