I posted this question first on SO but it didn't have much success. On second thought it may be a better fit here (slightly modified from the SO version). I wrote a function that helps executing pipe chains step by step. To use it the users has to copy the instruction to clipboard, then execute …

I mostly figured it out, see my answer on SO : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51087516/build-a-rstudio-addin-to-debug-pipe-chains/51127866#51127866

Here you go! Debug and Refactor magrittr Pipelines Tools for refactoring and debugging magrittr pipelines.

This is a cool approach as well! thanks!

Build a RStudio addin to debug pipe chains

RStudio IDE

alistaire July 2, 2018, 2:03am 3

Here you go!

What's currently the recommended way to debug pipe chains?