|> becomes a first class piping operator

[xiaodaigh]

In the magrittr package the %>% is defined as a piping operator. If we can define the same functionality as %>% by defining |> as a valid token in the R language then it would great

[dieghernan]

I think this one is coming...

https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2020/11/magrittr-2-0-is-here/

[HenrikBengtsson]

The |> pipe token was added to R 4.1.0 (2021-05-18). From the R 4.1.0 release notes:

This is a major update, notably containing the new native pipe operator "|>" and 
shorthand inline functions "\(x) x+1".
...
    * R now provides a simple native forward pipe syntax |>.  The
      simple form of the forward pipe inserts the left-hand side as the
      first argument in the right-hand side call.  The pipe
      implementation as a syntax transformation was motivated by
      suggestions from Jim Hester and Lionel Henry.