unneeded_concatenation_linter in magrittr pipes?

[MichaelChirico]

Consider

writeLines('
"a" %>%
  c("b")
', tmp <- tempfile())
lintr::lint(tmp, lintr::unneeded_concatenation_linter)
# /tmp/Rtmp0PRc3M/fileacb8a79d41ebb:3:3: warning: Unneeded concatenation of a constant. Remove the "c" call.
#  c("b")
#   ^

Should we allow an exception for such cases?

The way to silence the linter is to use ., which may in fact be more readable:

writeLines('
"a" %>%
  c( . ,"b")
', tmp <- tempfile())
lintr::lint(tmp, lintr::unneeded_concatenation_linter)