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

If anyone else comes across this problem, my issue was that there were blank spaces in certain columns. After filling these spaces, my issue went away and I was able to load the .csv file just fine.