CPTAC data, duplicate sample

Question

[Rob]

Hi all, I am using DESeq2 package to normalize CPTAC data. However, I got error when reading my metadata:

duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed

So, all my samples (patients) are primary tumor. some of them has more than two sample. I dont know how to deal with this?

Is it fine to randomly select one of each sample and remove the duplicates?

Thanks