Read your file in without row names and check for duplicates:
DF <- read.table(myfile, skip = 1, header = FALSE)
myfile[duplicated(DF[[1]]), ] # list rows with duplicated column 1
On Dec 7, 2007 11:22 AM, Fan Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to import a tab delimited file (converted from .xls file) by
> >Test<-read.table("/Users/....txt", header=T, row.names=1)
>
> The command has always worked for me, but now I have been getting the
> error message saying that "duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed. I
> have checked my original files and all names were unique. I have
> also tried to change the sample names (as 1, 2, 3,..., 13), it was
> still returning the same error message "duplicate 'row.names' are not
> allowed" to me. I have tried using "row.names=NULL", but it returned
> the column names as well.
>
> Does anyone know what the problem was? Thanks
>
> Fan
>
> Fan Yang
> Industrial Microbiology
> 2209 Biomedical Phys Sci
> Michigan State University
> Phone: (517)355-6463 Ext 1588
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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