Do we need to check reformulate() for non-syntactic names?

[ddsjoberg]

I think we're using reformulate() a few times, but I just saw that it doesn't work with non-syntactic names. Do we need to write a little wrapper that adds the backticks as needed before passing it to reformulate()?

reformulate("funny name", "outcome")
#> Error in str2lang(termtext): <text>:1:7: unexpected symbol
#> 1: funny name
#>           ^
reformulate("`funny name`", "outcome")
#> outcome ~ `funny name`

^{Created on 2024-04-03 with reprex v2.1.0}

[ddsjoberg]

Maybe just have a little helper function that adds backticks? We could just wrap the inputs to reformulate()?

bt <- function(x) paste0("`", x, "`")

[ddsjoberg]

The answer is yes, we need to update: See #121