bind_cols() gives cryptic error message for unnamed inputs

[jennybc]

dplyr::bind_cols(list(1, 2))
#> Error in cbind_all(x): Not compatible with STRSXP: [type=NULL].
dplyr::bind_cols(list(one = 1, two = 2))
#> # A tibble: 1 x 2
#>     one   two
#>   <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1    1.    2.

Created on 2018-03-09 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).

Possibly relevant context: I came across this via purrr::map_dfc(). So the fact you need names and how/where to inject them is less obvious than the above reprex indicates. Hence a better error message would really pay off.

[jennybc]

Pre-existing report from the purrr::map_dfc() world: tidyverse/purrr#395

[krlmlr]

Thanks, confirmed.

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