rename() switches the active geometry column in an sf

[MilesMcBain]

dplyr 1.0.0 and sf 0.9-4.

Active geometry gets set to 'geometry' when it should remain as 'centroid' after being set with st_sf().

library("rnaturalearth")
library("rnaturalearthdata")
library(tibble)
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(sf)
#> Linking to GEOS 3.8.0, GDAL 3.0.4, PROJ 6.3.1

world <- ne_countries(scale = "medium", returnclass = "sf")

world %>%
st_transform(3857) %>%
mutate(centroid = st_centroid(geometry)) %>%
st_sf(sf_column_name = "centroid") %>%
rename(position = centroid) %>%
attr("sf_column")
#> [1] "geometry"

## should be "centroid"

^{Created on 2020-06-22 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

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