On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Joanna Papakonstantinou wrote: > I am getting an error when trying to import tab delimited .txt file saved > from Excel. > I have read what is posted on the forums but still am confused. > > I saved my Excel file (DataTestforR.xlsx) as a tab delimited txt file > (DataTestR.txt) on my Desktop. > In the RGUI, I tried to import the txt file and got an error > >> myfile<-"C:\\Users\\jpapa\\Desktop\\DataTestR.txt" >> mydf<-read.delim(myfile, header=TRUE,sep=" ", dec=".") > Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = > quote, : > duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed > > The first row of my file has column names and the first column of my file > has unique identifing names (not duplicated): > Cu Sa Na Ci Se NM NPI IPI Seg > 0090.00 15.48 1 SOM S L TX 0 0.2 0.2 7-Very
I count 11 data columns and nine column names. -- Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.