This worked for me before upgrading both dplyr and sf to the dev versions. The error occurs inside _dplyr_full_join_impl so it's hard for me to debug further.
library(tidyverse); library(sf)
#> Linking to GEOS 3.6.1, GDAL 2.2.3, PROJ 4.9.3
nc = read_sf(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package="sf"))
# sf fails
nc %>%
full_join(tibble(CNTY_ID = 1))
#> Joining, by = "CNTY_ID"
#> Error: Evaluation error: 'names' attribute [101] must be the same length as the vector [100].
# plain list column works
nc %>%
as.data.frame() %>%
as_tibble() %>%
mutate(geometry = unclass(geometry)) %>%
full_join(tibble(CNTY_ID = 1))
#> Joining, by = "CNTY_ID"
#> # A tibble: 101 x 15
#> AREA PERIMETER CNTY_ CNTY_ID NAME FIPS FIPSNO CRESS_ID BIR74 SID74
#> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <int> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 0.114 1.44 1825 1825 Ashe 37009 37009 5 1091 1
#> 2 0.061 1.23 1827 1827 Alle~ 37005 37005 3 487 0
#> 3 0.143 1.63 1828 1828 Surry 37171 37171 86 3188 5
#> 4 0.07 2.97 1831 1831 Curr~ 37053 37053 27 508 1
#> 5 0.153 2.21 1832 1832 Nort~ 37131 37131 66 1421 9
#> 6 0.097 1.67 1833 1833 Hert~ 37091 37091 46 1452 7
#> 7 0.062 1.55 1834 1834 Camd~ 37029 37029 15 286 0
#> 8 0.091 1.28 1835 1835 Gates 37073 37073 37 420 0
#> 9 0.118 1.42 1836 1836 Warr~ 37185 37185 93 968 4
#> 10 0.124 1.43 1837 1837 Stok~ 37169 37169 85 1612 1
#> # ... with 91 more rows, and 5 more variables: NWBIR74 <dbl>, BIR79 <dbl>,
#> # SID79 <dbl>, NWBIR79 <dbl>, geometry <list>
Created on 2018-12-13 by the reprex package (v0.2.1.9000)
library(tidyverse); library(sf)
#> Linking to GEOS 3.6.1, GDAL 2.2.3, PROJ 4.9.3
devtools::session_info() %>%
.[[2]] %>%
filter(package %in% c("dplyr", "sf"))
# A tibble: 2 x 11
package ondiskversion loadedversion path loadedpath attached is_base date source md5ok library
<chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <lgl> <lgl> <chr> <chr> <lgl> <fct>
1 dplyr 0.7.99.9000 0.7.99.9000 C:/R/Library/3.5/dplyr C:/R/Library/3.5/dplyr TRUE FALSE 2018-12-12 Github (tidyverse/dplyr@6e17633) NA C:/R/Library/3.5
2 sf 0.7.2 0.7-2 C:/R/Library/3.5/sf C:/R/Library/3.5/sf TRUE FALSE 2018-12-10 Github (r-spatial/sf@bb53f02) NA C:/R/Library/3.5
>
Created on 2018-12-13 by the reprex package (v0.2.1.9000)
Confirmed that reverting to CRAN dplyr fixes this problem. @romainfrancois, FYI
Thanks. Can one of you open an issue in dplyr ?
Done. Will close this for now.
Need to make [.sfc work with NA indexes; see https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/issues/4016
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Thanks. Can one of you open an issue in dplyr ?