Ho to rename tibble's .name_repair columns with dplyr

mara · February 22, 2019, 1:17pm

Bug

Make ...j the standard disambiguating suffix in name repair

opened 06:10AM - 25 Jan 19 UTC

closed 09:31PM - 08 Mar 19 UTC

I think we should go ahead and use `...j` as the standard suffix when `.name_rep…air = "unique"`. These names don't *have* to be syntactic but it's so easy to make them so (they are already ugly and have lots of dots) and it will reduce the downstream burden of dealing with non-syntactic names (example: https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/issues/4094). This would be good to do ASAP I think in a tiny release. What do you think @krlmlr?

The problem with ..1 and ... (and also with ``) is that these names not only not syntactic, they're invalid even as a quoted name.