In response to the Aug 20 posting by Vadim, I had the same issue with
all kinds of complaints about row.names when it was not given in the
read.table command; when it was set to NULL (data were actually
shifted to the wrong names). I believe the problem was no comma (or
specified delimiter) at
Dear R-devel,
It appears that data.frame ignores row.names=NULL argument if it can guess the
names from the first column. This behavior seems to contradict what the help
page says, see the last sentence:
If row names are not supplied in the call to 'data.frame', the row
names are
