R help - Dec 2013 - read ".slk" file

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?

Regards,
Santosh

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Hi

Extension does not specify file format. You can rename any file with any
extension without changing its nature. However slk stays for symbolic link and
therefore it just brings actual file to Excel.

Maybe you could start to play with

http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/files.html

Regards
Petr
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> 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?
> 
> Regards,
> Santosh
> 
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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