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A new warning message appeared today when printing tibbles

library(tidyverse)

mtcars %>% 
  head %>%
  as_tibble

prints

# A tibble: 6 x 11
    mpg   cyl  disp    hp  drat    wt  qsec    vs    am  gear  carb
  <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1  21       6   160   110  3.9   2.62  16.5     0     1     4     4
2  21       6   160   110  3.9   2.88  17.0     0     1     4     4
3  22.8     4   108    93  3.85  2.32  18.6     1     1     4     1
4  21.4     6   258   110  3.08  3.22  19.4     1     0     3     1
5  18.7     8   360   175  3.15  3.44  17.0     0     0     3     2
6  18.1     6   225   105  2.76  3.46  20.2     1     0     3     1
Warning message:
`...` is not empty.

We detected these problematic arguments:
* `needs_dots`

These dots only exist to allow future extensions and should be empty.
Did you misspecify an argument?

How do I get rid of that warning?

this is my sessionInfo()

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tomw
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    In my version of `dplyr/tibble` I am not getting the warning – akrun Jul 10 '20 at 21:15
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    Please do not post an image of code/data/errors: it cannot be copied or searched (SEO), it breaks screen-readers, and it may not fit well on some mobile devices. Ref: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/285557 (and https://xkcd.com/2116/). Please just include the code, console output, or data (e.g., `dput(head(x))` or `data.frame(...)`) directly. – r2evans Jul 10 '20 at 21:19
  • thanks @r2evans -- change made as requested – tomw Jul 11 '20 at 01:02
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    This error seems to have been introduced in `pillar-1.4.5` (since I'm using 1.4.4 currently), see https://github.com/tidyverse/tibble/issues/798. I think your options are either (a) downgrade to 1.4.4 if you can; or (b) grab the github version of pillar to fix the bug. (And it looks like they are trying to expedite a CRAN release: https://github.com/tidyverse/tibble/commit/a384b335ced735f957b08165de25f590d3520756#commitcomment-40507142) – r2evans Jul 11 '20 at 01:07

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This question is not a duplicate of any SO question (that I can find), but it's a duplicate of an issue on tibble (tibble/#798), where the reproducible code is merely:

tibble::tibble(a = 1)
#> Warning: `...` is not empty.
#> 
#> We detected these problematic arguments:
#> * `needs_dots`
#> 
#> These dots only exist to allow future extensions and should be empty.
#> Did you misspecify an argument?
#> # A tibble: 1 x 1
#>       a
#>   <dbl>
#> 1     1

There is a patch in work (a384b33) and it appears they will push for a new CRAN release.

Your options are:

  1. downgrade with

    remotes::install_version("pillar", version = "1.4.4")

  2. install the github version of tibble with

    remotes::install_github("tidyverse/tibble")

  3. or wait for the CRAN release (in work).

r2evans
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    This is resolved with tibble version 3.0.3 [CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/tibble_3.0.3.zip) – Andrew Jul 29 '20 at 12:50