Dplyr: rename() fails in dplyr 0.7.4

[tobiasgerstenberg]

Here is a reprex:

library(tidyverse)
#> ── Attaching packages ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse 1.2.1 ──
#> ✔ ggplot2 2.2.1.9000     ✔ purrr   0.2.4     
#> ✔ tibble  1.3.4          ✔ dplyr   0.7.4     
#> ✔ tidyr   0.7.2          ✔ stringr 1.2.0     
#> ✔ readr   1.1.1          ✔ forcats 0.2.0
#> ── Conflicts ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse_conflicts() ──
#> ✖ dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
#> ✖ dplyr::lag()    masks stats::lag()

df = data.frame(old_var = 1:3) %>% 
  rename(new_var = old_var)
#> Error: `new_var` = old must be a symbol or a string, not formula

NB This issue was closed earlier but not resolved (the problem was not due to the problem @batpigandme identified).

[tobiasgerstenberg]

Adding session info here in case it helps:

sessionInfo()
#> R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28)
#> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0 (64-bit)
#> Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.6
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
#> LAPACK: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libLAPACK.dylib
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

#> other attached packages:
#> [1] reprex_0.1.1       shiny_1.0.5        forcats_0.2.0      stringr_1.2.0      dplyr_0.7.4        purrr_0.2.4        readr_1.1.1       
#> [8] tidyr_0.7.2        tibble_1.3.4       ggplot2_2.2.1.9000 tidyverse_1.2.1   
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#> [1] Rcpp_0.12.14          lubridate_1.7.1       lattice_0.20-35       assertthat_0.2.0      rprojroot_1.2         digest_0.6.12        
#> [7] psych_1.7.8           mime_0.5              R6_2.2.2              cellranger_1.1.0      plyr_1.8.4            backports_1.1.1      
#> [13] evaluate_0.10.1       httr_1.3.1            rlang_0.1.4.9000      lazyeval_0.2.1        readxl_1.0.0          rstudioapi_0.7.0-9000
#> [19] miniUI_0.1.1          whisker_0.3-2         callr_1.0.0.9000      rmarkdown_1.8         devtools_1.13.4       shinyjs_0.9.1        
#> [25] foreign_0.8-69        munsell_0.4.3         broom_0.4.3           compiler_3.4.2        httpuv_1.3.5          modelr_0.1.1         
#> [31] pkgconfig_2.0.1       mnormt_1.5-5          clipr_0.4.0           htmltools_0.3.6       crayon_1.3.4          withr_2.1.0          
#> [37] grid_3.4.2            nlme_3.1-131          jsonlite_1.5          xtable_1.8-2          gtable_0.2.0          magrittr_1.5         
#> [43] scales_0.5.0.9000     cli_1.0.0             stringi_1.1.6         debugme_1.1.0         reshape2_1.4.2        bindrcpp_0.2         
#> [49] xml2_1.1.1            tools_3.4.2           glue_1.2.0            hms_0.4.0             processx_2.0.0.1      parallel_3.4.2       
#> [55] yaml_2.1.15           colorspace_1.3-2      rvest_0.3.2           memoise_1.1.0         knitr_1.17            bindr_0.1            
#> [61] haven_1.1.0 

[cderv]

Hi,
As @batpigandme showed in her previous response, it works fine with last dplyr version. I run you reprex with no error.

library(tidyverse)
packageVersion("dplyr")
#> [1] '0.7.4'
df <- data.frame(old_var = 1:3) %>% 
  rename(new_var = old_var)
df
#>   new_var
#> 1       1
#> 2       2
#> 3       3

Created on 2017-12-03 by the reprex package (v0.1.1.9000).

[tobiasgerstenberg]

Thanks for the quick responses @batpigandme and @cderv. No clue where the error is coming from then :(

I've just updated packages via the Update Packages routine in RStudio, and now get the error for the MWE posted above.

Any hints for possible culprits would be greatly appreciated!

[tobiasgerstenberg]

Removing all the tidyverse packages and re-installing did not solve the problem.

[batpigandme]

Can you try installing the dev version of dplyr:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("tidyverse/dplyr")

[batpigandme]

note: continuation of #3239

[batpigandme]

library(tidyverse)

df = data.frame(old = 1:3) %>%
  rename(new_var = old)

df
#>   new_var
#> 1       1
#> 2       2
#> 3       3

sessionInfo()
#> R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28)
#> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
#> Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.6
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
#> LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> other attached packages:
#> [1] forcats_0.2.0      stringr_1.2.0      dplyr_0.7.4.9000  
#> [4] purrr_0.2.4        readr_1.1.1.9000   tidyr_0.7.2       
#> [7] tibble_1.3.4       ggplot2_2.2.1.9000 tidyverse_1.2.1   
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#>  [1] Rcpp_0.12.14          cellranger_1.1.0      compiler_3.4.2       
#>  [4] plyr_1.8.4            bindr_0.1             tools_3.4.2          
#>  [7] digest_0.6.12         lubridate_1.7.1       jsonlite_1.5         
#> [10] evaluate_0.10.1       nlme_3.1-131          gtable_0.2.0         
#> [13] lattice_0.20-35       pkgconfig_2.0.1       rlang_0.1.4          
#> [16] psych_1.7.8           cli_1.0.0             yaml_2.1.14          
#> [19] parallel_3.4.2        haven_1.1.0           bindrcpp_0.2         
#> [22] xml2_1.1.9000         httr_1.3.1            knitr_1.17.20        
#> [25] hms_0.4.0             rprojroot_1.2         grid_3.4.2           
#> [28] tidyselect_0.2.3      glue_1.2.0            R6_2.2.2             
#> [31] readxl_1.0.0          foreign_0.8-69        rmarkdown_1.8        
#> [34] modelr_0.1.1          reshape2_1.4.2.9000   magrittr_1.5         
#> [37] backports_1.1.1       scales_0.5.0.9000     htmltools_0.3.6      
#> [40] rvest_0.3.2.9000      assertthat_0.2.0.9000 mnormt_1.5-5         
#> [43] colorspace_1.3-2      stringi_1.1.6         lazyeval_0.2.1.9000  
#> [46] munsell_0.4.3         broom_0.4.3           crayon_1.3.4

Created on 2017-12-03 by the reprex package (v0.1.1.9000).

[tobiasgerstenberg]

The problem does __not__ arise with the dev version of dplyr.