Select statement error : unused argument

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The line of code below from the dplyr package is super simple. And yet, its giving me an error. I'm just trying to practice using the package and want to select a single column, cyl, from the data frame mtcars. What's going on here? Any ideas?

> select(mtcars, cyl)

Error in select(mtcars, cyl) : unused argument (cyl)

works for me : `select(mtcars, cyl)`. Alternatively, try `mtcars %>% select(cyl)` should give you the same result. — Ronak Shah, Jan 09 '18 at 04:31
Or most probably you are facing this issue [dplyr::select function clashes with MASS::select](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24202120/dplyrselect-function-clashes-with-massselect) so maybe use `dplyr::select(mtcars, cyl)`. — Ronak Shah, Jan 09 '18 at 04:36

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 14 '18 at 20:21

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Came across the same error. Could not figure out what it was. Out of desperation I installed dplyr again and suddenly it worked...

answered Aug 14 '18 at 20:21

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '18 at 04:14

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I was having the same issue. It came out that i have not imported dplyr before calling the select method.

answered Apr 17 '18 at 04:14

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That will give the error message - Could not find function "select". I experienced the exact same problem, and as suggested reinstalled dplyr. After that, it worked. Mysterious. Must be the R ghost. – Jørgen K. Kanters Jun 27 '19 at 09:13
It's because another package is using another "Select" function. – Miguel Gutierrez Nov 21 '19 at 20:20

Select statement error : unused argument

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