Mastodawn

Nov 14, 2024

I just learned that #rstats #readr write_csv() returns the data invisibly so you can just insert them within a pipe for a snapshot-then-plot functionality... I always imported magrittr %T>% before but it seems I don't need to use it at all for most cases.

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June Choe

@yume "snapshot-then-plot" sounds like a nice workflow. More practical than this funny one they have in the Tidy Design Principles book where they talk about that behavior 😆

```r
library(readr)

mtcars %>%
write_csv("mtcars.csv") %>%
write_tsv("mtcars.tsv")

unlink(c("mtcars.csv", "mtcars.tsv"))
```

https://design.tidyverse.org/out-invisible.html

Tidy design principles - Side-effect functions should return invisibly