Merge pull request #605 from data-edu/ch06/pipe-note

Add bit on native pipe

Author: ivelasq

06-foundational-skills_2.Rmd

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 In this case, the author of the {magrittr} package created a series of pipe operators and then collected them in a package named after the artist Magritte.
 
+R version 4.1.0 introduced the native pipe operator, `|>`. Like the {magrittr} pipe, it passes an object to a function so that you can chain a sequence of operations together. For straightforward use cases, both pipes behave similarly. However, you may run into differences in more complex scenarios. The code examples in this book use the {magrittr} pipe because it is tightly integrated with the tidyverse.
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 ### Exploring assignment vs. equality
 
 You've learned a couple of operators already: namely the assignment operator (`<-` or `->`) and the pipe operator (`%>%`). Now you'll learn about `=` and `==`.