R Conditional evaluation when using the pipe operator %>%

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Here is a quick example that takes advantage of the . and ifelse:

X<-1
Y<-T

X %>% add(1) %>% { ifelse(Y ,add(.,1), . ) }

In the ifelse, if Y is TRUE if will add 1, otherwise it will just return the last value of X. The . is a stand-in which tells the function where the output from the previous step of the chain goes, so I can use it on both branches.

Edit
As @BenBolker pointed out, you might not want ifelse, so here is an if version.

X %>% 
add(1) %>% 
 {if(Y) add(.,1) else .}

Thanks to @Frank for pointing out that I should use { braces around my if and ifelse statements to continue the chain.

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