Message-ID: <15657B13-A1D4-456B-8543-4EF1C69386F7@comcast.net>
Date: 2013-12-19T18:06:39Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: read ".slk" file
In-Reply-To: <CAN_e6XvqBmk26ubOP-852LwGDEx_PgY4=Z0Fu6XakWVffFBDaQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Dec 16, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Santosh wrote:
> Dear Rxperts..
>
> I recently received a data file with the extension ".slk". If I save the
> file as MS Excel file, I am able to read in R without issues. Is it
> possible to read this ".slk" file without converting into another
> R-readable data format?
Reading this I wondered if you could use sep=";" with read.* functions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYmbolic_LinK_%28SYLK%29
That is NOT going to give you a neat dataframe, but you didn't make your goals very clear so it seems possible that you might get what you needed from some selected input lines.
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA