Object Not Found keeps happening even though it works sometimes

[LisaDA]

I've been having this problem with multiple datasets: Palmer Penguins, Anscombe’s Quartet, and my own csv I created and imported.
I'm careful to load my packages in this order before I start work: tidyverse, here, skimr, janitor.

I'll run a basic line of code and get an error object not found, then I'll run a different line with the same object and it'll work fine. Then, I'll re-run the original line of code and sometimes it works the second time but sometimes it still gets the same error.

Any ideas? Thanks!

[andresrcs]

In your example, the first command is group_by(set) since set is not a dataframe but a column of quartet the error you get is the expected result

In your second and last chunks of code you get no error message because you are using correct syntax.

[LisaDA]

Thanks, Andres, do you mean that when I use the summarize function I must preface it with the quartet %>%?

[andresrcs]

@LisaDA

do you mean that when I use the summarize function I must preface it with the quartet %>%?

Not exactly, what I'm saying is that you need to use proper syntax, the pipe operator (%>%) passes anything on its left side as the first argument for the function on its right side. For example, these two lines of code are equivalent:

quartet %>% group_by(set)

group_by(quartet, set)