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...s be a useful variant is a function that does not evaluate it's arguments and expects a first argument passed from the pipe and a second argument that is a number like 2 or 3 and a third argument that is the (name of) a function and remaining arguments. The above might look like: . %>% the_nth(2, func, first , last) The above asks to take the new implicitly passed first argument which I will illustrate with a real argument as it would also work without a pipeline: the_nth(piped, 2, func, first, last) So it would make a list out of the remaining arguments that looks like list(first,...