how to feed the result of a pipe chain (magrittr) to an object

Question

This is a fairly simply question. But I couldn\'t find the answer per google/stackexchange and looking at the documentation of magrittr. How do you feed the result of a chain of

Answer 1

You can do it like so:

data.frame( x = c(1:3), y = (4:6)) %>%  
sum %>%  
assign(x="a",value=.,pos=1)  

A couple of things to note:

You can use "." to tell magrittr which argument the object being brought forward belongs in. By default it is the first, but here I use the . to indicate that I want it in the second value argument instead.

Second I had to use the pos=1 argument to make the assignment in the global environment.