[R] Error when naming rows of dataset

[Peter Dalgaard]

yongchuan <panyc at pacific.net.sg> writes:

> I'm pretty new with R, so the only error message I see is
> the below that I pasted. I'm attaching the first few rows
> of the file for reference. The layout looks screwy when I
> attach it here but 'Start' to 'closingCoupon' is the first
> row in the .txt file. Thx!
> 
> 	Start	Stop	PrepayDate	modBalance	closingCoupon
> 1.1	6	7	0	811.2769	8.35
> 1.2	7	8	0	811.2769	8.35
> 1.3	8	9	1	811.2769	8.35
> 2.1	4	5	0	2226.0825	8.7
> 2.2	5	6	0	2226.0825	8.7
> 2.3	6	7	0	2226.0825	8.7
> 2.4	7	8	0	2226.0825	8.7
> 2.5	8	9	0	2226.0825	8.7
> 2.6	9	10	0	2226.0825	8.7
> 2.7	10	11	0	2226.0825	8.7
> 2.8	11	12	0	2226.0825	8.7
> 2.9	12	13	0	2226.0825	8.7
> 2.1	13	14	0	2226.0825	8.7

I see two rows called 2.1... 

(BTW, data seem to be TAB separated. If so, read.delim may be a better
idea than read.table. E.g., it will cause you less grief in case of empty
cells.)
 
> > 
> > From: Michael Dewey <info at aghmed.fsnet.co.uk>
> > Date: Wed 25/10/2006 6:38 PM SGT
> > To: yongchuan <panyc at pacific.net.sg>, <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> > Subject: Re: [R] Error when naming rows of dataset
> > 
> > At 17:30 24/10/2006, yongchuan wrote:
> > >I get the following error when I try reading in a table.
> > >How are 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 duplicate row names? Thx.
> > 
> > R gives you brief details of where it was when it fell over.
> > Have you checked in latestWithNumber.txt' to see whether R is right?
> > 
> > 
> > > > table <- read.table('latestWithNumber.txt', header=T)
> > >Error in "row.names<-.data.frame"(`*tmp*`, value = c("1.1", "1.2", "1.3",  :
> > >         duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed
> > >
> > >Yongchuan
> > 
> > Michael Dewey
> > http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk
> > 
> >
> 
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