I had always wondered about the magrittr package name, but never enough to actually go find out. That's a cool origin.

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)
EDIT: maybe that wasn't the case in 2021 when the blog post was written

Refreshing to see such articles.

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