@andrew #rstats
Oh, speaking of R and ligatures, R's pipes are awesome, though the choice of infix operator notation isn't as much 😂

Relatedly, I have to plug both the purrr library for much nicer mapping (and reducing) functions than the built in lapply/sapply/mapply, and the different pipes that many people don't frequently discuss from magrittr! My second favorite is actually the "T pipe", which lets you call void functions that produce side-effects, without terminating the pipe prematurely (oh, and the '.' argument placeholder so you can repeat inputs in multiple locations of subsequent functions)!

For example, you can make a neat plot, and do some analysis on the dataframe/matrix after the plot in one go:

csums<-rnorm(100) %>%
matrix(ncol = 2) *%T>%*
plot %>%
colSums

Voila! You get your plot and your variable assignment in one, without code duplication! And of course, if you already knew all of this, please ignore me, but I love playing code golf 😅