title: dplyr . and _no visible binding for global variable '.'_ Note in package check
body: <p>In <code>dplyr</code> one can write code like e.g. using the '.' to refer to the data in the pipe</p>
  
  <pre><code>x &lt;- data.frame(x = 2:4)
  y &lt;- data.frame(y = 1:3)
  
  y %&gt;% dplyr::bind_cols(x,.)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but when using it in a function and running the package check it produces the </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>no visible binding for global variable '.'.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>What is the best practice to handle the NOTE?</p>