dplyr 'rename' standard evaluation function not working as expected?

Question

UPDATE: From comment below on this post, this is now working as expected, without the issues I laid out here.

Below is a toy example of using rename_ fr

Answer 1

In my Rstudio, I define:

x <- 'myname'
dat <- data.frame(yes=1, no=2)

I want to change the variable name from yes to myname

It doesn't work:

rename_(dat, .dots = setNames(x, "yes"))

But this works:

rename_(dat, .dots = setNames("yes", x))

rename_(dat, .dots = setNames("yes", paste(x) ))