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Example of named argument not working (as I'd expect) in magrittr
> mytestfunction(iris)
Functional sequence with the following components:
1. data.table(.)
2. { if (y) rbind(head(., 1), tail(., 1)) else .}
Use 'functions' to extract the individual functions.
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] data.table_1.9.4 magrittr_1.5
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] chron_2.3-45 plyr_1.8.1 Rcpp_0.11.4 reshape2_1.4.1 stringr_0.6.2 tools_3.1.2
library(magrittr)
library(data.table)
mytestfunction<-function(x,y = TRUE) {
x %>%
data.table %>%
{
if(y) {
.[1:50]
} else {
.[1:75]
}
} %>%
nrow
}
mytestfunction(iris)
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smbache commented Feb 9, 2015

The first NULL? What should the dot refer to? I am not sure I get what you want? What is the purpose of x in your (original) version?

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