More informative error for case_when() failing due to not matching NA

[marianschmidt]

It seems that since recently mutate case_when() calls are more strictly evaluated with regard to the variable type (or it always was as strict and some other R or package update, now produces integer instead of double values).
That's fine, but I think, ideally the error message would be more informative than 'names' attribute [1] must be the same length as the vector [0], especially for this borderline case where (depending on the data) the same code might produce either integers or doubles.

library(dplyr)
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library(magrittr)

tibble(a = c("yes", "no"), 
       b = as.integer(c(0,2))) %>% 
  mutate(b = case_when(a == "yes" ~ NA_real_, 
                       TRUE ~ b))
#> Error in `mutate()`:
#> ! Problem while computing `b = case_when(a == "yes" ~ NA_real_, TRUE ~
#>   b)`.
#> Caused by error in `names(message) <- `*vtmp*``:
#> ! Attribut 'names' [1] muss dieselbe Länge haben wie der Vektor [0]

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[DanChaltiel]

Here is a related confusing error message with case_when() when the wrong NA type is used:

x=1:10
dplyr::case_when(
  x < 5 ~ 1,
  TRUE ~ NA
)
#> Error in names(message) <- `*vtmp*`: 'names' attribute [1] must be the same length as the vector [0]
dplyr::case_when(
  x < 5 ~ 1,
  TRUE ~ NA_real_
)
#>  [1]  1  1  1  1 NA NA NA NA NA NA

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The error message is different but I's think the internal problem is the same. Not sure if it will be corrected by #6225 though.

[eutwt]

Here's a reprex for the two examples above using dplyr installed from #6225

library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)

tibble(a = c("yes", "no"), 
       b = as.integer(c(0,2))) %>% 
  mutate(b = case_when(a == "yes" ~ NA_real_, 
                       TRUE ~ b))
#> Error in `mutate()`:
#> ! Problem while computing `b = case_when(a == "yes" ~ NA_real_, TRUE ~
#>   b)`.
#> Caused by error in `case_when()`:
#> ! `b` must be a double vector, not an integer vector.

^{Created on 2022-04-04 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}

x=1:10
dplyr::case_when(
  x < 5 ~ 1,
  TRUE ~ NA
)
#> Error in `dplyr::case_when()`:
#> ! `NA` must be a double vector, not a logical vector.

^{Created on 2022-04-04 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}