Delete columns

sara20

Hello 

When I want to import my data to RM at first I see RM understand duplicate columns so I can not import it to RM. It would be nice if I can import it to the RM then can delete duplicate columns. Also it would be nice if we could do association mining rule with Auto model.

regards
sara

David_A

Hi @sara20,

to handle duplicate column names during import you can do the following:

• Don't define a header column (depending on the actual method, there is a checkbox for that in the wizard)
• Then delete the duplicate column (for example with Select Attributes operator)
• Use the Rename by Example Values operator to select the first row (which contains the original header names) to get back the original names
• Afterwards you probably need to use Parse Numbers and Nominal to Date to get the correct value types for all attributes

Best,
David

Edit:

Even simpler is the option to rename the duplicate columns by hand while importing, but that's only feasible with a few duplicate names.