Duplicate 'row.names' error reading table. row.names=NULL shifts columns

Question

This is similar to read.csv row.names and to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12425599/duplicated-row-names , but I do not see answers that help.

Problem: Trying

Answer 1

I was having the same problem. I merged the date with timestamps and now I am able to read from the csv.

You can generate a row number as the first column (say using python) in your csv and then read it again.