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 also use the <<- operator:

data.frame( x = c(1:3), y = (4:6)) %>%
  sum() %>%
  `<<-`(a,.)

Edit: I think John Paul's is the safest suggestion, and you could keep going with the chain doing different assignments of partial results. For example:

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

This will correctly create a, b and c.