Thank you Mr. Dunlap, that was very helpful! On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 8:01 PM William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote:
> 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.