[R] Odp: duplicate row.names are not allowed

Petr PIKAL petr.pikal at precheza.cz
Fri Dec 7 08:23:37 CET 2007


Hi

No error message? It seems to me that it is OK. There is of course limited 
width for printout on screen (see GUI preferences/console columns), and 
therefore everything which exceeds specified limits is printed on second 
and subsequent row.

try

dim(form1) or str(form1) for evaluation of your read data frame.

Regards
Petr

r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 07.12.2007 07:24:05:

> I am using read.table and keep on getting this message.
> 
> The function is confusing my first column with a row.names column.  I 
have
> checked the table carefully using excel and it seems quite symetric and
> with a name at the top of each column.
> 
> This is what I am using:
> 
> form1 = read.table("c:/horses/form.tbl", sep="\t", header = T)
> 
> and this is the top few rows of the table:
> 
> fields.result   fields.age   fields.sex   fields.barrier horse.winnings  

> horse.form.ran   horse.form.win   horse.form.place 
horse.form.at.this.track.
> ran   horse.form.at.this.track.win   horse.form.at.this.track.place 
horse.
> form.at.this.distance.ran   horse.form.at.this.distance.win 
horse.form.at.
> this.distance.place   horse.form.with.this.jockey.ran 
horse.form.with.this.
> jockey.win   horse.form.with.this.jockey.place 
horse.form.with.this.going.
> ran   horse.form.with.this.going.win   horse.form.with.this.going.place  

> rider.rides.last.3   rider.places.last.3   trainer.rides.last.3 
trainer.places.last.3
> 4   4   G   3   50   5   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1 0 
  0
> 0   0   36   0.166666667
> 2   5   G   5   3250   9   0   0.333333333   0   0   0   0   0   0   5 0 
 
> 0.4   3   0   0.333333333   35   0.114285714   7   0.285714286
> 3   4   M   4   2075   11   0   0.090909091   0   0   0   0   0   0   0  
0 
> 0   1   0   0   0   0   13   0.307692308
> 5   5   M   2   0   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   1 0  
0 
> 54   0.185185185   2   0
> 1   4   M   7   1800   4   0   0.5   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0 2 
  0
> 0   0   0   90   0.366666667
> 
> Can anyone suggest whats wrong or a workaround.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Stephen
> 
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