VADER can't parse the word 'bad ass'?

[letitburn00]

I am running a sentiment analysis on a large corpus of tweets in R. VADER successfully returned sentiment scores for all but five tweets, which returned 'ERROR' in the word scores field. Upon inspection of these tweets, I noticed that they all contained the word 'bad ass'. When replacing 'bad ass' with 'badass', sentiment scores are successfully returned. It seems like this is a bug?

[Deepankar-98]

Can you confirm what error are you getting? I ran both the strings and its working fine for me.
See below screenshot:

[letitburn00]

Hi, the error may actually be unrelated to the word 'bad ass', but is somehow solved by replacing it with 'badass'? I wasn't able to replicate the problem on the exact strings I was working with before, but the same problem occurred for a new one:

Scores were successfully returned for other tweets with 'bad ass'. I don't see any glaring issues with the above text, so I'm not sure what the problem could be.