vctrs::vec_locate_matches() error when dplyr::left_join()

[Luna]

Joining with by = join_by(sire_id)
Error in vctrs::vec_locate_matches():
! Match procedure results in an allocation larger than 2^31-1 elements. Attempted allocation size was 3690303424.
ℹ In file match.c at line 2644.
ℹ Install the winch package to get additional debugging info the next time you get this error.
ℹ This is an internal error that was detected in the vctrs package.
Please report it at https://github.com/r-lib/vctrs/issues with a reprex and the full backtrace.
Backtrace:
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1. ├─... %>% drop_na()
2. ├─tidyr::drop_na(.)
3. ├─dplyr::left_join(...)
4. ├─dplyr::distinct(.)
5. ├─dplyr::left_join(., test)
6. ├─dplyr:::left_join.data.frame(., test)
7. │ └─dplyr:::join_mutate(...)
8. │ └─dplyr:::join_rows(...)
9. │ └─dplyr:::dplyr_locate_matches(...)
10. │ ├─base::withCallingHandlers(...)
11. │ └─vctrs::vec_locate_matches(...)
12. └─rlang:::stop_internal_c_lib(...)
13. └─rlang::abort(message, call = call, .internal = TRUE, .frame = frame)

Environment parameters:
R.version:
platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
arch x86_64
os linux-gnu
system x86_64, linux-gnu
status
major 4
minor 3.2
year 2023
month 10
day 31
svn rev 85441
language R
version.string R version 4.3.2 (2023-10-31)
nickname Eye Holes

This problem didn't exist last week. Something changed?

[Davis Vaughan]

It looks like your resulting table would give 3,690,303,424 rows, which is too large for dplyr to handle. You likely have a missing key in your join_by() statement, so double check that. If you update dplyr to the latest CRAN version, you should actually get a dplyr specific error about this now.