[R] duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed

[Uwe Ligges]

amor Gandhi wrote:
> Yes, I would like, but what I sent you was just an example! I am reading a huge data, so I cant do it by hand, could you please tell how to do this in R, some of the names are also coming one after another.

But I do not understand why you would habe it as row.names and not as a 
separate variavle.

And I do not undertsand which principle is behind your renaming. You 
need to give a real example.

Uwe Ligges





> Many thanks
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> --- Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> schrieb am Di, 28.4.2009:
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> Von: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> Betreff: Re: [R] duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed
> An: "amor Gandhi" <amorigandhi at yahoo.de>
> CC: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch, "S Ellison" <S.Ellison at lgc.co.uk>
> Datum: Dienstag, 28. April 2009, 14:52
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> amor Gandhi wrote:
>> Thank you for your reply :)! Is it possible to solve the problem by using A.4, A.4a, A.9 and A.91? How one cand do this in R?
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> Err, change "A.4" to "A.4a" in your code?
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> Uwe
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>> Many thanks
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>> --- S Ellison <S.Ellison at lgc.co.uk> schrieb am Di, 28.4.2009:
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>> Von: S Ellison <S.Ellison at lgc.co.uk>
>> Betreff: Re: [R] duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed
>> An: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch, "amor Gandhi" <amorigandhi at yahoo.de>
>> Datum: Dienstag, 28. April 2009, 14:17
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>> You have used A.4 and A.9 twice.
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>> Look at 
>>> nam
>> # or 
>>> duplicated(nam)
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>>>>> amor Gandhi <amorigandhi at yahoo.de> 28/04/2009 13:04:03 >>>
>> Hi everyone,
>> *á
>> I have got the following problem:
>> *á
>> x1 <- rnorm(10,5,1)
>> x2 <- runif(10,0,1)
>> nam1 <- paste("A",1:4,sep=".")
>> nam2 <- paste("A",6:9,sep=".")
>> nam <- c(nam1,"A.4",nam2,"A.9")
>> mydata <- data.frame(x1,x2)
>> rownames(mydata) <- nam
>> Error in `row.names<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, value = c("A.1", "A.2", "A.3", : duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> non-unique values when setting 'row.names': *ÇÿA.4*ÇÖ, *ÇÿA.9*ÇÖ
>> *á
>> I am very thankful for your help!
>> *á
>> Amor
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