As @xntang88 said, the row number is simply the index of each row in your input dataset. For instance, if your input file is
x y z
0.01231 0.99992 0.99985
0.23180 0.97325 0.94723
0.45128 0.89989 0.80980
0.67077 0.78334 0.61363
0.89026 0.62921 0.39591
1.00000 0.54030 0.29193
Then the row numbers will be
x y z row
0.01231 0.99992 0.99985 1
0.23180 0.97325 0.94723 2
0.45128 0.89989 0.80980 3
0.67077 0.78334 0.61363 4
0.89026 0.62921 0.39591 5
1.00000 0.54030 0.29193 6