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After upgrading to v1.3 I noticed, pivot_longer fails when I pass a vector with names attributes to the cols argument.
Relevant issues: #1104 and #1160. Looks like #1405 is the breaking change?
I discovered this when trying to create custom tidymodels::recipes steps. Would it be best practice to use as.character(cols) for anything passed to pivot_longer? This may not be enough context, but here is what I was working on if more context might help.
Here is a reprex:
library(tidyr)
library(dplyr)
#>
#> Attaching package: 'dplyr'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
#>
#> filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
#>
#> intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(modeldata)
data(meats)
meats_small <- meats |> select(x_001, x_002, x_003, water, protein)
measures <- c("x_001", "x_002", "x_003")
measures_with_names <- measures
names(measures_with_names) <- measures
meats_small |>
pivot_longer(
cols = all_of(measures),
names_to = "measure",
values_to = "response"
)
#> # A tibble: 645 × 4
#> water protein measure response
#> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <dbl>
#> 1 60.5 16.7 x_001 2.62
#> 2 60.5 16.7 x_002 2.62
#> 3 60.5 16.7 x_003 2.62
#> 4 46 13.5 x_001 2.83
#> 5 46 13.5 x_002 2.84
#> 6 46 13.5 x_003 2.84
#> 7 71 20.5 x_001 2.58
#> 8 71 20.5 x_002 2.58
#> 9 71 20.5 x_003 2.59
#> 10 72.8 20.7 x_001 2.82
#> # … with 635 more rows
meats_small |>
pivot_longer(
cols = all_of(measures_with_names),
names_to = "measure",
values_to = "response"
)
#> Error in `pivot_longer()`:
#> ! Can't rename variables in this context.
#> Backtrace:
#> ▆
#> 1. ├─tidyr::pivot_longer(...)
#> 2. └─tidyr:::pivot_longer.data.frame(...)
#> 3. └─tidyr::build_longer_spec(...)
#> 4. └─tidyselect::eval_select(...)
#> 5. └─tidyselect:::eval_select_impl(...)
#> 6. ├─tidyselect:::with_subscript_errors(...)
#> 7. │ └─rlang::try_fetch(...)
#> 8. │ └─base::withCallingHandlers(...)
#> 9. └─tidyselect:::vars_select_eval(...)
#> 10. └─tidyselect:::ensure_named(...)
#> 11. └─cli::cli_abort(...)
#> 12. └─rlang::abort(...)Created on 2023-02-02 with reprex v2.0.2