Unclear warning when defining custom pipe operator - r

Question

In my process I need to perform many dplyr::inner_joins. Thought I might define a custom pipe operator for it as explained here:
library(tidyverse)
library(rlang)
df1 <- tibble(a = 1:10, b = 11:20)
df2 <- tibble(a = 1:10, c = 21:30)
`%J>%` <- function(lhs, rhs){
inner_join(lhs, rhs)
}
df1 %J>% df2
This works as expected and I get:
Joining, by = "a"
# A tibble: 10 x 3
a b c
<int> <int> <int>
1 1 11 21
2 2 12 22
3 3 13 23
4 4 14 24
5 5 15 25
6 6 16 26
7 7 17 27
8 8 18 28
9 9 19 29
10 10 20 30
But then also a warning:
Warning message:
`chr_along()` is soft-deprecated as of rlang 0.2.0.
This warning is displayed once per session.
Plot thickens if I don't include library(rlang) at all (in a new session), in which case I get no warnings:
library(tidyverse)
df1 <- tibble(a = 1:10, b = 11:20)
df2 <- tibble(a = 1:10, c = 21:30)
`%J>%` <- function(lhs, rhs){
inner_join(lhs, rhs)
}
df1 %J>% df2
Obviously I don't have to include library(rlang) at all in this example, but if I did - this is one weird warning. Where is it coming from and how to avoid it if I did wanted to include library(rlang)?
sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Israel.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Israel.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_Israel.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_Israel.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] rlang_0.3.0.1 forcats_0.3.0 stringr_1.3.1 dplyr_0.7.6 purrr_0.2.5 readr_1.1.1 tidyr_0.8.1 tibble_1.4.2 ggplot2_3.1.0 tidyverse_1.2.1
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_0.12.19 cellranger_1.1.0 pillar_1.3.0 compiler_3.5.1 plyr_1.8.4 bindr_0.1.1 tools_3.5.1 packrat_0.4.9-3 jsonlite_1.5 lubridate_1.7.4 nlme_3.1-137
[12] gtable_0.2.0 lattice_0.20-35 pkgconfig_2.0.2 cli_1.0.1 rstudioapi_0.8 haven_1.1.2 bindrcpp_0.2.2 withr_2.1.2 xml2_1.2.0 httr_1.3.1 hms_0.4.2
[23] grid_3.5.1 tidyselect_0.2.4 glue_1.3.0 R6_2.2.2 fansi_0.3.0 readxl_1.1.0 modelr_0.1.2 magrittr_1.5 backports_1.1.2 scales_1.0.0 rvest_0.3.2
[34] assertthat_0.2.0 colorspace_1.3-2 utf8_1.1.4 stringi_1.2.4 lazyeval_0.2.1 munsell_0.5.0 broom_0.5.0 crayon_1.3.4

Answer 1

From your description, I would say that If you load rlang as part of the tidyverse, (i.e. just load tidyverse), then R will use the verse's rlang which is automatically updated whithin the verse. If you load tidyverse first and then rlang, then R will use the last seen one, which is the one you loaded manually. Thus, If you did not update rlang manually then It will give the warning.
The problem should go away If you manually update rlang.