Re: [R] Problem with reading file saved in directory

2019-06-21 Thread Spencer Brackett
Thank you Mr. Dunlap, that was very helpful! On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 8:01 PM William Dunlap 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 wha

Re: [R] Problem with reading file saved in directory

2019-06-21 Thread William Dunlap via R-help
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

Re: [R] Problem with reading file saved in directory

2019-06-21 Thread Jeff Newmiller
My psychic powers are telling me you don't know what is in that file. Perhaps you should look, with an eye toward counting the number of fields on each line and on having properly-quoted fields. My psychic powers are not strong enough to tell you what problems you will find in that file. On Jun

[R] Problem with reading file saved in directory

2019-06-21 Thread Spencer Brackett
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 c