Is tacit programming also known as point-free style - an option in R?
Check magrittr package since it seems closest to what you are asking. Wikipedia quotes an example:
For example, a sequence of operations in an applicative language like the following:
def example(x): y = foo(x) z = bar(y) w = baz(z) return w...is written in point-free style as the composition of a sequence of functions, without parameters:
def example: baz bar foo
In R with magrittr it could be written as
x %>% foo %>% bar %>% baz
where %>% operator is used to compose a chain of functions, so that the output of a previous function is passed as a first argument of subsequent function. See the magrittr vignette for learning more.
The function could be defined
# explicitly
example <- function(x) x %>% foo %>% bar %>% baz
# or simply (as @bergant noticed)
example <- . %>% foo %>% bar %>% baz