Try 'row.names=NULL' on the read.table function.

On 10/25/06, yongchuan <panyc@pacific.net.sg> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> >
> > From: Michael Dewey <info@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk>
> > Date: Wed 25/10/2006 6:38 PM SGT
> > To: yongchuan <panyc@pacific.net.sg>, <r-help@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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