filter function in dplyr errors

Question

I have a data frame in R like so called UK_profiles:

row.names   id     name
1   1   8131437     Profile
2   2   8131719     WolverineCompetitio         


        

Answer 1

It does seem like you are getting the stats::filter function and not the dplyr one. To make sure you get the right one, use the notation dplyr::filter.

d = data.frame(x=1:10,
 name=c("foo","bar","baz","bar","bar","baz","fnord","qar","qux","quux"))

filter(d, !grepl("ar|ux", name))
Error in grepl("ar|ux", name) : object 'name' not found

dplyr::filter(d, !grepl("ar|ux", name))
  x  name
1 1   foo
2 3   baz
3 6   baz
4 7 fnord

You don't even need to do library(dplyr) for this to work - you do need dplyr installed though.

This works for functions from any package.