Unhelpful bind_cols error message

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This use of bind_cols gives an unhelpful error message, as argument 2 below does have names.

suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(dplyr))
tibble <- tibble(x = 3:4, y = 5:6)
abc <- letters[1:3]
(abc <-  t(setNames(abc, abc)))
#>      a   b   c  
#> [1,] "a" "b" "c"
tibble %>% 
  bind_cols(abc)
#> Error: Argument 2 must have names

Note that this works with cbind, which is why I tried it with bind_cols.

tibble %>% 
  cbind(., abc)
#>   x y a b c
#> 1 3 5 a b c
#> 2 4 6 a b c

But the help is clear that bind_cols requires data frame arguments, which is what the error message should say.
Created on 2020-02-04 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

2

Hi, you could raise an issue, or perhaps offer an edit and make a pull request with a more helpful message over here :

3

Thanks. I've now checked there and similar issues have been raised before.

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