The lead function in the R package dplyr is not working for me

Asked May 26 '21 at 07:09

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library(dplyr)

x <- 1:10

lead(x)

Running the above code just gives me the following error:

"Error in UseMethod("lead") : no applicable method for 'lead' applied to an object of class "c('integer', 'numeric')""

I have tried a bunch of things like as.numeric and as.vector, but I'm consistently getting this error.

asked May 26 '21 at 07:09

Muhammad Kamil

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try with `dplyr::lead(x)` – Ronak Shah May 26 '21 at 07:10
@RonakShah thank you, it worked. Can you explain why I have to specify dplyr:: ? Shouldn't R by default use this package? – Muhammad Kamil May 26 '21 at 07:22
It is because there is another package loaded that has `lead` function which is masking the `lead` function from `dplyr`. – Ronak Shah May 26 '21 at 07:27

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