[R] Problem with rio/haven

[Bert Gunter]

My guess: See the check.names argument in ?data.frame. I suspect that
the code is using this -- or something like it -- with its value =
FALSE.

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 1:22 AM Sigbert Klinke
<sigbert using wiwi.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I got the following error when reading a Stata file:
>
>  > library("rio")
>  > x <- import('XXX.dta')
> Fehler in df_parse_dta_file(spec, encoding) :
>    Evaluation error: Column name `Merge` must not be duplicated.
> Use .name_repair to specify repair.
>
> I understand that the column name "Merge" appears at least twice in the
> Stata file.
>
> My problem is that I have created the data as data.frame in R and saved
> with the export command of rio. How could it be that I can save a data
> set but I'am not able to read in again?
>
> Sigbert
>
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