Thanks for the pointer towards the relevance of my observation. I was using Python code to generate the polynomial in the case when it didn't work, and copying the same code into the Sage worksheet avoids the error. I'm still a little unsure as to why the parent of the f was the univariate polynomial ring R if I'm right that this was causing the problem.
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