[Question]: (potential bug) variable names duplicated as "USUBJID.USUBJID" in "variable browser" module/tab (tm_variable_browser)

[student-simon]

What happened?

We developed a TEAL app, there seems variable name display issue (show as <name>.<name>) in "Variable Browser" module, variable name looks fine in other modules and in the filter panel, please see the screenshot below:

We did some processing for the ADSL (and other ADaM) dataset using merge and left_join function, but we checked data after the merging, it looks fine. In the TEAL app, the module code is as simple as below. We are wondering what could cause this issue or any potential bug in "tm_variable_browser()"?

  modules =  teal::modules(
    teal.modules.general::tm_front_page(
      header_text = c(
        "Important information" = "This app should be used for exploratory use only."
      ),
      show_metadata = TRUE
    ),
    
    tm_data_table("Data Table"),
    tm_variable_browser(label = "Variable browser"),
    ....

sessionInfo()

R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libopenblasp-r0.3.20.so;  LAPACK version 3.10.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C           LC_TIME=C.UTF-8       
 [4] LC_COLLATE=C.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=C.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=C.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=C.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C              LC_ADDRESS=C          
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C         LC_MEASUREMENT=C.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C   

time zone: America/Los_Angeles
tzcode source: system (glibc)

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] tidyr_1.3.1                 sparkline_2.0              
 [3] forcats_1.0.0               nestcolor_0.1.2            
 [5] rice_3.0.1                  teal.reporter_0.3.1        
 [7] teal.connectors.rice_0.2.0  teal.modules.clinical_0.9.0
 [9] tern_0.9.3                  rtables_0.6.6              
[11] magrittr_2.0.3              formatters_0.5.5           
[13] teal.modules.general_0.3.0  teal.transform_0.5.0       
[15] teal_0.15.2                 teal.slice_0.5.0           
[17] teal.data_0.5.0             teal.code_0.5.0            
[19] ggmosaic_0.3.3              ggplot2_3.5.0              
[21] dplyr_1.1.4                 shiny_1.8.1                

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] tidyselect_1.2.1      viridisLite_0.4.2     fastmap_1.1.1        
 [4] lazyeval_0.2.2        shinyjs_2.1.0         promises_1.2.1       
 [7] digest_0.6.35         estimability_1.5      mime_0.12            
[10] tern.gee_0.1.3        lifecycle_1.0.4       survival_3.5-7       
[13] compiler_4.3.1        ricepass_1.1.4        rlang_1.1.3          
[16] sass_0.4.9            tools_4.3.1           utf8_1.2.4           
[19] yaml_2.3.8            data.table_1.15.4     knitr_1.45           
[22] htmlwidgets_1.6.4     curl_5.2.1            withr_3.0.0          
[25] purrr_1.0.2           shinyWidgets_0.8.3    geepack_1.3.10       
[28] grid_4.3.1            fansi_1.0.6           teal.logger_0.2.0    
[31] xtable_1.8-4          colorspace_2.1-0      emmeans_1.10.0       
[34] scales_1.3.0          MASS_7.3-60           cli_3.6.2            
[37] mvtnorm_1.2-4         rmarkdown_2.26        generics_0.1.3       
[40] tzdb_0.4.0            httr_1.4.7            cachem_1.0.8         
[43] splines_4.3.1         assertthat_0.2.1      vctrs_0.6.5          
[46] Matrix_1.6-1.1        jsonlite_1.8.8        hms_1.1.3            
[49] ggrepel_0.9.5         crosstalk_1.2.1       teal.widgets_0.4.2   
[52] fontawesome_0.5.2     plotly_4.10.4         jquerylib_0.1.4      
[55] glue_1.7.0            DT_0.32               gtable_0.3.4         
[58] later_1.3.2           shinycssloaders_1.0.0 munsell_0.5.0        
[61] tibble_3.2.1          logger_0.3.0          pillar_1.9.0         
[64] htmltools_0.5.8       R6_2.5.1              Rdpack_2.6           
[67] evaluate_0.23         lattice_0.21-9        haven_2.5.4          
[70] readr_2.1.5           rbibutils_2.2.16      backports_1.4.1      
[73] memoise_2.0.1         broom_1.0.5           httpuv_1.6.15        
[76] bslib_0.7.0           Rcpp_1.0.12           shinyvalidate_0.1.3  
[79] nlme_3.1-163          checkmate_2.3.1       xfun_0.43            
[82] fs_1.6.3              pkgconfig_2.0.3

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[donyunardi]

I don't see this behavior in our teal.gallery exploratory example app, both stable and dev version:
https://genentech.shinyapps.io/nest_exploratory_dev/
https://genentech.shinyapps.io/nest_exploratory_stable/

There might be something with the data processing activity. Would you be able to provide some code to reproduce this?
Another idea to pinpoint the issue, is it possible to run the app without pre-processing? does it still showing the same behavior?