Maintain name as binding in local environment

conserve allows its third argument to be bound to the name given as its second argument in the local environment, while returning the first argument. A sort of side-effect function which binds to the caller environment.

Usage

conserve(obj, name, value)

Arguments

obj

[R object] Any object, specifically data.

name

[symbol or string] The name to which a value is to be bound locally.

value

[R object] The value for the name.

Value

The obj itself. The side effect being local binding of value to the specified name.

Conserving Intermediate Objects

The best use of conserve is when one needs to keep an object in a long sequence of commands to be used later in the same sequence (so mostly pipes). It is essential to provide this local context (e.g. using local or inside functions) and avoid altering the global environment, since internally, rlang::local_bindings is used. The conserve function is what is used with the "convey" pipe to bind intermediary objects to provided symbols. Exported for the rare occasion it may be useful on its own. One can also specifically set conserve(name, value) directives among the convey instructions.

The value argument can be specified in as a magrittr pipe context. That is, automatic data masking as well as the . symbol representing the original object.

See also

Other result assemblers: %$>%(), %->%(), %<-%(), %to%(), control()