Error when using complete "object d not found"

I've got a problem where complete() fails if I call my variable "d" but not if I call it "y". I'm flummoxed by this. Here's a reprex (you can see if works if I keep the name the same, and if I call it "y", but not if I call it "d"):


library(tidyverse)
library(lubridate)
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'lubridate'
#> The following object is masked from 'package:base':
#> 
#>     date

t <- tibble::tribble(
  ~id,          ~YearStart,
  1L, "01/01/2014",
  1L, "01/01/2015",
  1L, "01/01/2017",
  2L, "01/01/2018",
  2L, "01/01/2020"
)

t %>%
  mutate(YearStart = dmy(YearStart)) %>%
  complete(YearStart = seq(min(YearStart), max(YearStart), by = "year"), nesting(id))
#> # A tibble: 14 x 2
#>    YearStart     id
#>    <date>     <int>
#>  1 2014-01-01     1
#>  2 2014-01-01     2
#>  3 2015-01-01     1
#>  4 2015-01-01     2
#>  5 2016-01-01     1
#>  6 2016-01-01     2
#>  7 2017-01-01     1
#>  8 2017-01-01     2
#>  9 2018-01-01     1
#> 10 2018-01-01     2
#> 11 2019-01-01     1
#> 12 2019-01-01     2
#> 13 2020-01-01     1
#> 14 2020-01-01     2

t %>%
  mutate(d = dmy(YearStart)) %>%
  complete(d = seq(min(d), max(d), by = "year"), nesting(id))
#> Error in seq(min(d), max(d), by = "year"): object 'd' not found

t %>%
  mutate(y = dmy(YearStart)) %>%
  complete(y = seq(min(y), max(y), by = "year"), nesting(id))
#> # A tibble: 14 x 3
#>    y             id YearStart 
#>    <date>     <int> <chr>     
#>  1 2014-01-01     1 01/01/2014
#>  2 2014-01-01     2 <NA>      
#>  3 2015-01-01     1 01/01/2015
#>  4 2015-01-01     2 <NA>      
#>  5 2016-01-01     1 <NA>      
#>  6 2016-01-01     2 <NA>      
#>  7 2017-01-01     1 01/01/2017
#>  8 2017-01-01     2 <NA>      
#>  9 2018-01-01     1 <NA>      
#> 10 2018-01-01     2 01/01/2018
#> 11 2019-01-01     1 <NA>      
#> 12 2019-01-01     2 <NA>      
#> 13 2020-01-01     1 <NA>      
#> 14 2020-01-01     2 01/01/2020

Created on 2020-05-26 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

Hadley kindly answered this for me on Twitter. It's a bug.

https://twitter.com/hadleywickham/status/1265348909435695104

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