Dplyr warns: `...` is not empty

Question

A new warning message appeared today when printing tibbles

library(tidyverse)

mtcars %>% 
  head %>%
  as_tibble

prints

# A tibble: 6 x 11
    mpg   cyl  disp    hp  drat    wt  qsec    vs    am  gear  carb
  <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1  21       6   160   110  3.9   2.62  16.5     0     1     4     4
2  21       6   160   110  3.9   2.88  17.0     0     1     4     4
3  22.8     4   108    93  3.85  2.32  18.6     1     1     4     1
4  21.4     6   258   110  3.08  3.22  19.4     1     0     3     1
5  18.7     8   360   175  3.15  3.44  17.0     0     0     3     2
6  18.1     6   225   105  2.76  3.46  20.2     1     0     3     1
Warning message:
`...` is not empty.

We detected these problematic arguments:
* `needs_dots`

These dots only exist to allow future extensions and should be empty.
Did you misspecify an argument? 

How do I get rid of that warning?

this is my sessionInfo()

Answer 1

This question is not a duplicate of any SO question (that I can find), but it's a duplicate of an issue on tibble (tibble/#798), where the reproducible code is merely:

tibble::tibble(a = 1)
#> Warning: `...` is not empty.
#> 
#> We detected these problematic arguments:
#> * `needs_dots`
#> 
#> These dots only exist to allow future extensions and should be empty.
#> Did you misspecify an argument?
#> # A tibble: 1 x 1
#>       a
#>   <dbl>
#> 1     1

There is a patch in work (a384b33) and it appears they will push for a new CRAN release.

Your options are:

1. downgrade with

   remotes::install_version("pillar", version = "1.4.4")
   

2. install the github version of tibble with

   remotes::install_github("tidyverse/tibble")
   

3. or wait for the CRAN release (in work).