What is that you're looking for in a more traditional pipeline tool?
I think RStudio Connect is great for stuff like pulling data, manipulating it and writing it to a database. It makes it easy to schedule and it is highly configurable to staging and things like load balancing.
But if you're looking for a traditional pipeline tool then maybe airflow could be of interest, or even an R package like drake. Also found this interesting topic where you compare airflow to RStudio Connect: What are Rstudio's solution to workflow management systems