Internal error discovered in pivot_wider()

[bpeterson16]

The function pivot_wider() produces an error:

Error in `rethrow_id_cols_oob()`:
! `i` must be a single string, not an integer vector.
ℹ This is an internal error that was detected in the tidyr package.
  Please report it at <https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyr/issues> with a reprex and the full backtrace.
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Backtrace:
  1. iris %>% ...
 27. rlang (local) `<fn>`(`<vctrs___>`)
 28. handlers[[1L]](cnd)
 29. tidyr:::rethrow_id_cols_oob(...)

library(tidyverse)
library(dplyr)

pivot <- iris %>%
  pivot_wider(id_cols = 3:5, names_from = Species, values_from = Petal.Width)

[arbgoetz]

Same issue discovered when using make.unique() on a column containing duplicates

library(tidyverse)

   t<-tibble(x = 1:4, y = c("a", "a", "b", "c"), z = c(21, 22, 23, 24))
   w<-pivot_wider(t, id_cols = make.unique(t$y), names_from = x, values_from = y)
#> Error in `rethrow_id_cols_oob()`:
#> ! `i` must be a single string, not a character vector.
#> ℹ This is an internal error that was detected in the tidyr package.
#>   Please report it at <https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyr/issues> with a reprex
#>   (<https://tidyverse.org/help/>) and the full backtrace.
#> Backtrace:
#>      ▆
#>   1. ├─tidyr::pivot_wider(...)
#>   2. ├─tidyr:::pivot_wider.data.frame(...)
#>   3. │ └─tidyr:::build_wider_id_cols_expr(...)
#>   4. │   └─tidyr:::select_wider_id_cols(...)
#>   5. │     ├─rlang::try_fetch(...)
#>   6. │     │ └─base::withCallingHandlers(...)
#>   7. │     └─tidyselect::eval_select(...)
#>   8. │       └─tidyselect:::eval_select_impl(...)
#>   9. │         ├─tidyselect:::with_subscript_errors(...)
#>  10. │         │ └─rlang::try_fetch(...)
#>  11. │         │   └─base::withCallingHandlers(...)
#>  12. │         └─tidyselect:::vars_select_eval(...)
#>  13. │           └─tidyselect:::walk_data_tree(expr, data_mask, context_mask)
#>  14. │             └─tidyselect:::as_indices_sel_impl(...)
#>  15. │               └─tidyselect:::as_indices_impl(...)
#>  16. │                 └─tidyselect:::chr_as_locations(x, vars, call = call, arg = arg)
#>  17. │                   └─vctrs::vec_as_location(...)
#>  18. ├─vctrs (local) `<fn>`()
#>  19. │ └─vctrs:::stop_subscript_oob(...)
#>  20. │   └─vctrs:::stop_subscript(...)
#>  21. │     └─rlang::abort(...)
#>  22. │       └─rlang:::signal_abort(cnd, .file)
#>  23. │         └─base::signalCondition(cnd)
#>  24. ├─rlang (local) `<fn>`(`<vctrs___>`)
#>  25. │ └─handlers[[1L]](cnd)
#>  26. │   └─rlang::cnd_signal(cnd)
#>  27. │     └─rlang:::signal_abort(cnd)
#>  28. │       └─base::signalCondition(cnd)
#>  29. └─rlang (local) `<fn>`(`<vctrs___>`)
#>  30.   └─handlers[[1L]](cnd)
#>  31.     └─tidyr:::rethrow_id_cols_oob(...)
#>  32.       └─tidyr:::check_string(i, .internal = TRUE)
#>  33.         └─tidyr:::stop_input_type(...)
#>  34.           └─rlang::abort(message, ..., call = call, arg = arg)

[hadley]

This seems to be about selecting columns that don't exist:

library(tidyverse)

df <- tibble(y = c("a", "a", "b", "c"), z = c(21, 22, 23, 24))

pivot_wider(df, id_cols = all_of(c("a", "b", "c")), names_from = y, values_from = z)
#> Error in `rethrow_id_cols_oob()`:
#> ! `i` must be a single string, not a character vector.
#> ℹ This is an internal error that was detected in the tidyr package.
#>   Please report it at <https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyr/issues> with a reprex
#>   (<https://tidyverse.org/help/>) and the full backtrace.

pivot_wider(df, id_cols = 1:2, names_from = y, values_from = z)
#> Error in `rethrow_id_cols_oob()`:
#> ! `i` must be a single string, not an integer vector.
#> ℹ This is an internal error that was detected in the tidyr package.
#>   Please report it at <https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyr/issues> with a reprex
#>   (<https://tidyverse.org/help/>) and the full backtrace.

^{Created on 2023-11-01 with reprex v2.0.2}