On 03/06/2012 06:42 PM, Ajay Askoolum wrote:
I expected the row names to be unique but a data frame appears to be able to
hold duplicate row names. This makes me thing that there must be circumstances
when it is necessary. However, I cannot think of any. Please enlighten me.
Hi Ajay,
An example of how you managed to do this would be helpful. I tried it:
dodo<-data.frame(a=1:3,b=4:6)
dodo
a b
1 1 4
2 2 5
3 3 6
rownames(dodo)<-c("s","t","s")
Error in `row.names<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, value = value) :
duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed
In addition: Warning message:
non-unique value when setting 'row.names': ‘s’
Jim
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