Reading the file with row.names=1 meant to make rownames out of the first column in the text file. Duplicate row names are not accepted. To diagnose, read it with row.names=NULL and see what is in the first column (e.g., use the table function on it).
Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 3:56 PM Spencer Brackett < spbracket...@saintjosephhs.com> wrote: > Good evening, > > I set up a working directory to read the indicated desktop file, but > implementation of the read.file function produced the following error... > > >meth = read.table(file = "~/Vakul's GBM code/mapper.txt", sep ="\t", > header = T, row.names = 1) > Error in read.table(file = "~/Vakul's GBM code/mapper.txt", sep = "\t", : > duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed > In addition: Warning message: > In scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec = dec, : > EOF within quoted string > > What does it mean by "duplicate row names are not allowed" ? is the file I > am attempting to access somehow not compatible? Also, how do I address the > second part of the warning referring to what was found "In scan" ? > > Best, > > Spencer > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
