Using the base R pipe to pipe ggplot2 to plotly

Question

I can pipe from ggplot2 to plotly using:

library(tidyverse) library(plotly) diamonds %>% {ggplot(.,aes(carat, price)) + geom_point()} |> ggplotly() 

though I use the magrittr pipe and the base R pipe in the one chain.

Replacing the magrittr pipe with the base R pipe gives:

Error: function '{' not supported in RHS call of a pipe 

Is there a way to just use the base R pipe?

I found R >4.1 syntax: Error: function 'function' not supported in RHS call of a pipe and https://github.com/plotly/plotly.R/issues/1229

Breaking the chain avoids the pipe issue:

p <- diamonds |> ggplot(aes(carat, price)) + geom_point() ggplotly(p) 

Answer 1

Another option is

library(ggplot2) library(plotly) (diamonds |> ggplot(aes(carat, price)) + geom_point()) |> ggplotly() 

Answer 2

The native R pipe |> pipes the LHS into the first argument of RHS. It is important that you need to include the function as a function call, which means adding a () at the end of the function name. You can use the following code:

library(ggplot2) library(plotly) diamonds |> (\(.) { ggplot(., aes(carat, price)) + geom_point() }) () |> ggplotly() 

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