I am getting a ValueError: cannot reindex from a duplicate axis when I am trying to set an index to a certain value. I tried to reproduce this with a simple example, but I could not do it.
Here is my session inside of ipdb trace. I have a DataFrame with string index, and integer columns, float values. However when I try to create sum index for sum of all columns I am getting ValueError: cannot reindex from a duplicate axis error. I created a small DataFrame with the same characteristics, but was not able to reproduce the problem, what could I be missing?
I don't really understand what ValueError: cannot reindex from a duplicate axismeans, what does this error message mean? Maybe this will help me diagnose the problem, and this is most answerable part of my question.
ipdb> type(affinity_matrix)
<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
ipdb> affinity_matrix.shape
(333, 10)
ipdb> affinity_matrix.columns
Int64Index([9315684, 9315597, 9316591, 9320520, 9321163, 9320615, 9321187, 9319487, 9319467, 9320484], dtype='int64')
ipdb> affinity_matrix.index
Index([u'001', u'002', u'003', u'004', u'005', u'008', u'009', u'010', u'011', u'014', u'015', u'016', u'018', u'020', u'021', u'022', u'024', u'025', u'026', u'027', u'028', u'029', u'030', u'032', u'033', u'034', u'035', u'036', u'039', u'040', u'041', u'042', u'043', u'044', u'045', u'047', u'047', u'048', u'050', u'053', u'054', u'055', u'056', u'057', u'058', u'059', u'060', u'061', u'062', u'063', u'065', u'067', u'068', u'069', u'070', u'071', u'072', u'073', u'074', u'075', u'076', u'077', u'078', u'080', u'082', u'083', u'084', u'085', u'086', u'089', u'090', u'091', u'092', u'093', u'094', u'095', u'096', u'097', u'098', u'100', u'101', u'103', u'104', u'105', u'106', u'107', u'108', u'109', u'110', u'111', u'112', u'113', u'114', u'115', u'116', u'117', u'118', u'119', u'121', u'122', ...], dtype='object')
ipdb> affinity_matrix.values.dtype
dtype('float64')
ipdb> 'sums' in affinity_matrix.index
False
Here is the error:
ipdb> affinity_matrix.loc['sums'] = affinity_matrix.sum(axis=0)
*** ValueError: cannot reindex from a duplicate axis
I tried to reproduce this with a simple example, but I failed
In [32]: import pandas as pd
In [33]: import numpy as np
In [34]: a = np.arange(35).reshape(5,7)
In [35]: df = pd.DataFrame(a, ['x', 'y', 'u', 'z', 'w'], range(10, 17))
In [36]: df.values.dtype
Out[36]: dtype('int64')
In [37]: df.loc['sums'] = df.sum(axis=0)
In [38]: df
Out[38]:
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
y 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
u 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
z 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
w 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
sums 70 75 80 85 90 95 100
As others have said, you've probably got duplicate values in your original index. To find them do this:
df[df.index.duplicated()]
Indices with duplicate values often arise if you create a DataFrame by concatenating other DataFrames. IF you don't care about preserving the values of your index, and you want them to be unique values, when you concatenate the the data, set ignore_index=True.
Alternatively, to overwrite your current index with a new one, instead of using df.reindex(), set:
df.index = new_index
Simply skip the error using .values at the end.
affinity_matrix.loc['sums'] = affinity_matrix.sum(axis=0).values
I came across this error today when I wanted to add a new column like this
df_temp['REMARK_TYPE'] = df.REMARK.apply(lambda v: 1 if str(v)!='nan' else 0)
I wanted to process the REMARK column of df_temp to return 1 or 0. However I typed wrong variable with df. And it returned error like this:
----> 1 df_temp['REMARK_TYPE'] = df.REMARK.apply(lambda v: 1 if str(v)!='nan' else 0)
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.pyc in __setitem__(self, key, value)
2417 else:
2418 # set column
-> 2419 self._set_item(key, value)
2420
2421 def _setitem_slice(self, key, value):
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.pyc in _set_item(self, key, value)
2483
2484 self._ensure_valid_index(value)
-> 2485 value = self._sanitize_column(key, value)
2486 NDFrame._set_item(self, key, value)
2487
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.pyc in _sanitize_column(self, key, value, broadcast)
2633
2634 if isinstance(value, Series):
-> 2635 value = reindexer(value)
2636
2637 elif isinstance(value, DataFrame):
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.pyc in reindexer(value)
2625 # duplicate axis
2626 if not value.index.is_unique:
-> 2627 raise e
2628
2629 # other
ValueError: cannot reindex from a duplicate axis
As you can see it, the right code should be
df_temp['REMARK_TYPE'] = df_temp.REMARK.apply(lambda v: 1 if str(v)!='nan' else 0)
Because df and df_temp have a different number of rows. So it returned ValueError: cannot reindex from a duplicate axis.
Hope you can understand it and my answer can help other people to debug their code.
For people who are still struggling with this error, it can also happen if you accidentally create a duplicate column with the same name. Remove duplicate columns like so:
df = df.loc[:,~df.columns.duplicated()]
This can also be a cause for this[:) I solved my problem like this]
It may happen even if you are trying to insert a dataframe type column inside dataframe
you can try this
df['my_new']=pd.Series(my_new.values)
In my case, this error popped up not because of duplicate values, but because I attempted to join a shorter Series to a Dataframe: both had the same index, but the Series had fewer rows (missing the top few). The following worked for my purposes:
df.head()
SensA
date
2018-04-03 13:54:47.274 -0.45
2018-04-03 13:55:46.484 -0.42
2018-04-03 13:56:56.235 -0.37
2018-04-03 13:57:57.207 -0.34
2018-04-03 13:59:34.636 -0.33
series.head()
date
2018-04-03 14:09:36.577 62.2
2018-04-03 14:10:28.138 63.5
2018-04-03 14:11:27.400 63.1
2018-04-03 14:12:39.623 62.6
2018-04-03 14:13:27.310 62.5
Name: SensA_rrT, dtype: float64
df = series.to_frame().combine_first(df)
df.head(10)
SensA SensA_rrT
date
2018-04-03 13:54:47.274 -0.45 NaN
2018-04-03 13:55:46.484 -0.42 NaN
2018-04-03 13:56:56.235 -0.37 NaN
2018-04-03 13:57:57.207 -0.34 NaN
2018-04-03 13:59:34.636 -0.33 NaN
2018-04-03 14:00:34.565 -0.33 NaN
2018-04-03 14:01:19.994 -0.37 NaN
2018-04-03 14:02:29.636 -0.34 NaN
2018-04-03 14:03:31.599 -0.32 NaN
2018-04-03 14:04:30.779 -0.33 NaN
2018-04-03 14:05:31.733 -0.35 NaN
2018-04-03 14:06:33.290 -0.38 NaN
2018-04-03 14:07:37.459 -0.39 NaN
2018-04-03 14:08:36.361 -0.36 NaN
2018-04-03 14:09:36.577 -0.37 62.2
I wasted couple of hours on the same issue. In my case, I had to reset_index() of a dataframe before using apply function. Before merging, or looking up from another indexed dataset, you need to reset the index as 1 dataset can have only 1 Index.
Simple Fix that Worked for Me
Run df.reset_index(inplace=True) before grouping.
Thank you to this github comment for the solution.
Remove inplace if you want it to return the dataframe.
I got this error when I tried adding a column from a different table. Indeed I got duplicate index values along the way. But it turned out I was just doing it wrong: I actually needed to df.join the other table.
This pointer might help someone in a similar situation.
Source: Stackoverflow.com