[R] Problem with reading file saved in directory

[Spencer Brackett]

Thank you Mr. Dunlap, that was very helpful!

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 8:01 PM William Dunlap <wdunlap using 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 <
> spbrackett20 using 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
>>
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