Error in Compiling a Report

[mkthompson]

Hi there. I'm absolutely new to using RStudio.

Whenever I'm trying to compile a report from an RScript, I'm getting this error message:

Quitting from lines 3-25 (Ch6ZScoresFile.spin.Rmd) Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, :
duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed
Calls: ... eval_with_user_handlers -> eval -> eval -> read.csv -> read.table
Execution halted

Not sure what the issue is. I'd appreciate any help.

[nedallo]

Dear mkthompson

would you please share your data .. or please look at the row names in the data which you have ..
the row names should be unique , you should not have a duplicate row name .

duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed

Kind Regards

[mkthompson]

Hi there,

I can’t share the data bc of copyright issues (it’s a data set from a statistics lab course).

I’ve looked at all of my data, and as far as I can see, I don’t have any duplicate row names in either the RScript or imported dataset. I’m assuming it’s mistaking some part for row names.

I’ve tried using the row.names = NULL command but that didn’t do anything.

My professor and I have both tried many fixes and I still can’t get the RScript to compile.

[andresrcs]

Can you at least show the code that is producing that error message? or even better, put together a proper REPRoducible EXample (reprex) illustrating your issue? it is not necessary to use your actual data, you can provide some made-up analogous that reproduces the problem.

Also, just to clarify terminology, R is an interpreted programming language, so, there is no compiling of R code, maybe you mean you are "sourcing" an R script or "knitting" an .Rmd document?

[mkthompson]

I will try to create a reprex. Sorry, like I said, I’m brand new to R (and coding in general).

Also, my issue is not when I’m running a code. I’m literally clicking the File>Compile Report button.

[andresrcs]

@mkthompson

Also, my issue is not when I’m running a code. I’m literally clicking the File>Compile Report button.

I see. That sounds weird to me but it is the equivalent of "knitting" an .R script. The important thing is that now we clearly understand what you are doing
.