column name leak/conflict?

[espinielli]

cols_label fails when you have a column named d.
Without a call to cols_label it works.
Using another column name it works too.

library(tibble)
library(gt)

# this WORKS
# tribble(
#   ~a , ~e ,
#   1, 4,
#   5, 8
# ) %>% 
#   gt() %>% 
#   cols_label(
#     a = "label a",
#     e = "label e"
#   )

tribble(
  ~a , ~d ,
  1, 4,
  5, 8
) %>% 
  gt() %>% 
  cols_label(
    a = "label a",
    d = "label d"
  )
#> Error: The object to `data` is not a `gt_tbl` object.

^{Created on 2021-02-17 by the reprex package (v1.0.0)}

[KaiAragaki]

This appears to be some kind of partial matching with a 'data' argument.

library(tibble)
library(gt)
# Fails
tribble(
  ~a , ~dat ,
  1, 4,
  5, 8
) %>% 
  gt() %>% 
  cols_label(
    a = "label a",
    dat = "label d"
  )
#> Error: The object to `data` is not a `gt_tbl` object.

# Fails
tribble(
  ~a , ~data ,
  1, 4,
  5, 8
) %>% 
  gt() %>% 
  cols_label(
    a = "label a",
    dat = "label d"
  )
#> Error: The object to `data` is not a `gt_tbl` object.


# Works
tribble(
  ~a , ~datr ,
  1, 4,
  5, 8
) %>% 
  gt() %>% 
  cols_label(
    a = "label a",
    datr = "label d"
  )

# Works
tribble(
  ~a , ~datas ,
  1, 4,
  5, 8
) %>% 
  gt() %>% 
  cols_label(
    a = "label a",
    datas = "label d"
  )

^{Created on 2021-04-02 by the reprex package (v1.0.0)}

[rich-iannone]

Thanks for posting this issue @espinielli and thanks @KaiAragaki for finding the root cause. What needs to happen is to change the data arg to .data and avoid most cases of this. There are likely other things that could be done in addition to this.