Question Re Piping Inside A Function

gistfile1.txt

It's not uncommon where I'm working to get some dataset with a needlessly longass name and needlessly longass field names.
Unfortunately, they want the field names and dataset names left as is, in situ.

Is there something like %>% for single-line stuff that would do this:

Instead of...
omgthisdatasetnameissolong$whythehelldidtheynamethisfieldlikethis <- as.character(omgthisdatasetnameissolong$whythehelldidtheynamethisfieldlikethis)

maybe this...

omgthisdatasetnameissolong$whythehelldidtheynamethisfieldlikethis <- as.character(%>%)