reading a csv file with repeated row names in R

Question

I am trying to read a csv file with repeated row names but could not. The error message I am getting is Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, qu

Answer 1

In short, check your column names. If your first row is the names of columns, you may be missing one or more names.

Example:

"a","b","c"
a,b,c,d
a,b,c,d

The example above will cause a row.name error because each row has 4 values, but only 3 columns are named.

This happened to me when I was building a csv from an online resources.