mutate() is trying to extract using the value of a global variable when using the dollar sign operator

Question

I\'m getting funny results using mutate with a $ extraction when there happens to be a variable in the global environment with the same name as the ele

Answer 1

As @clbieganek pointed out, this is a bug. It is not yet fixed (as of dplyr version 4.3)

Possible fix as suggested in comments:

$'y'

This is the issue that tracks this general problem: https://github.com/hadley/dplyr/issues/1400