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Aseem Bansal commented on SPARK-16896:
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[~hyukjin.kwon] cc

> Loading csv with duplicate column names
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>
>                 Key: SPARK-16896
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-16896
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Aseem Bansal
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> It would be great if the library allows us to load csv with duplicate column 
> names. I understand that having duplicate columns in the data is odd but 
> sometimes we get data that has duplicate columns. Getting upstream data like 
> that can happen. We may choose to ignore them but currently there is no way 
> to drop those as we are not able to load them at all. Currently as a 
> pre-processing I loaded the data into R, changed the column names and then 
> make a fixed version with which Spark Java API can work.
> But if talk about other options, e.g. R has read.csv which automatically 
> takes care of such situation by appending a number to the column name.
> Also case sensitivity in column names can also cause problems. I mean if we 
> have columns like
> ColumnName, columnName
> I may want to have them as separate. But the option to do this is not 
> documented.



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