Remixing data -- dplyr bug

[aammd]

If you are trying to combine two datasets for HW12 using, for example, left_join, you might hit this bug which will result in the error message:

Error: cannot join on columns 'name' x 'name' : found multiple encodings in character string
on execution.

This will happen if you are trying to combine datasets, merging by country name. One workaround is to use merge instead.
thanks to @JiyingWen for pointing this out during office hours!