Hi list, I have a bunch of .csv files that are password-protected. I wonder if there is a way to read them in in R without manually removing the password protection for each file? Thank you very much! ...Tao [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Hi Tao, You will need to give us more details. CSV files are pure text. How are they password protected? Are they Excel files? In a password protected compressed format? Encrypted? Best Regards, Josh On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Shi, Tao <shidaxia at yahoo.com> wrote:> Hi list, > > I have a bunch of .csv files that are password-protected. ?I wonder if there is > a way to read them in in R without manually removing the password protection for > each file? > > Thank you very much! > > > ...Tao > ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Shi, Tao wrote:> Hi list, > > I have a bunch of .csv files that are password-protected. I wonder if there isThere is nothing in the CSV standard about password protection. I very much doubt that these actually CSV files. So please follow the posting guide [*]> a way to read them in in R without manually removing the password protection for > each file? > > Thank you very much! > > > ...Tao > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.[*] as above: and as you sent HTML you are either full of contempt for the helpeRs or failed to do your homework. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:00:48AM -0700, Shi, Tao wrote:> Hi list, > > I have a bunch of .csv files that are password-protected. I wonder if there is > a way to read them in in R without manually removing the password protection for > each file?I doubt that there is such a thing as a password protected csv file. They are just text files, after all. So I guess you have something else. How or what did the presumed pasword protection? cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Lehrstuhl f?r Genomorientierte Bioinformatik Technische Universit?t M?nchen Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan Maximus-von-Imhof-Forum 3 85354 Freising, Germany http://webclu.bio.wzw.tum.de/~pagel/