Assignment pipe
Pipe an object forward into a function or call expression and update the
lhs
object with the resulting value.
lhs %<>% rhs
lhs |
An object which serves both as the initial value and as target. |
rhs |
a function call using the magrittr semantics. |
The assignment pipe, %<>%
, is used to
update a value by first piping it into one or more rhs
expressions, and
then assigning the result. For example, some_object %<>%
foo %>% bar
is equivalent to some_object <- some_object %>% foo
%>% bar
. It must be the first pipe-operator in a chain, but otherwise it
works like %>%
.
iris$Sepal.Length %<>% sqrt x <- rnorm(100) x %<>% abs %>% sort is_weekend <- function(day) { # day could be e.g. character a valid representation day %<>% as.Date result <- day %>% format("%u") %>% as.numeric %>% is_greater_than(5) if (result) message(day %>% paste("is a weekend!")) else message(day %>% paste("is not a weekend!")) invisible(result) }
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