Ok, I had to remove my .julia to get a working Queryverse#master. This is the working syntax:
julia> using DataFrames, Queryverse, Statistics
julia> df = DataFrame(a=[1,2,missing], b=["One",missing,"Three"])
3×2 DataFrame
│ Row │ a │ b │
│ │ Int64? │ String? │
├─────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ 1 │ 1 │ One │
│ 2 │ 2 │ missing │
│ 3 │ missing │ Three │
julia> myMean = mean(skipmissing(df.a))
1.5
julia> q = df |> @replacena(:b=>"Unknown", :a => :( $myMean ) ) |> DataFrame
3×2 DataFrame
│ Row │ a │ b │
│ │ Any │ Any │
├─────┼─────┼─────────┤
│ 1 │ 1 │ One │
│ 2 │ 2 │ Unknown │
│ 3 │ 1.5 │ Three │