Data-Centric Statistical Inference Using R and Tidyverse/

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The Pipe Operator

The Pipe Operator

Look at how the pipe operator is used in data wrangling.

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Needed packages

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library(dplyr) 
library(ggplot2) 
library(nycflights13)

Before we start data wrangling, let’s first introduce a tool that gets loaded with the dplyr package—the pipe operator %>%. The pipe operator allows us to combine multiple operations in R into a single sequential chain of actions. Let’s start with a hypothetical example. Say we’d like to perform a hypothetical sequence of operations on a hypothetical data frame x using hypothetical functions f(), g(), and h():

  1. Take x ...