diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1c8de59242..81dc5a80b2 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -64,4 +64,4 @@ Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Encoding: UTF-8
 LazyData: true
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
-RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 1fcfce0e82..5689062356 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ S3method(rbind,grouped_df)
 S3method(recode,character)
 S3method(recode,factor)
 S3method(recode,numeric)
+S3method(recode_default,default)
+S3method(recode_default,factor)
 S3method(reframe,data.frame)
 S3method(relocate,data.frame)
 S3method(rename,data.frame)
diff --git a/R/recode.R b/R/recode.R
index 6242b27717..98135959e6 100644
--- a/R/recode.R
+++ b/R/recode.R
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ recode_default <- function(x, default, out) {
   UseMethod("recode_default")
 }
 
+#' @export
 recode_default.default <- function(x, default, out) {
   same_type <- identical(typeof(x), typeof(out))
   if (is.null(default) && same_type) {
@@ -248,6 +249,7 @@ recode_default.default <- function(x, default, out) {
   }
 }
 
+#' @export
 recode_default.factor <- function(x, default, out) {
   if (is.null(default)) {
     if ((is.character(out) || is.factor(out)) && is.factor(x)) {