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I think that the recent shift in the R world to chains and pipes will become permanent. Even if not, this style of code translates well to Javascript and other languages. I thought a finance example exploring Fama/French factors with dplyr, magrittr, tidyr, and rCharts would help me learn and think through new workflows.
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