Hi Josh and Prof. Ripley, Thanks for the quick replies!
Sorry about the HTML email. It's the default for my yahoo account and forgot to switch. The question was asked by a colleague of mine. After double-checking, yes, they are actually Excel files. Any idea on how to approach this? Thanks! ...Tao ________________________________ From: Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Thu, March 31, 2011 11:15:35 AM Subject: Re: [R] read password-protected files 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 is There 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? > [[elided Yahoo spam]] > > > ...Tao > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@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, rip...@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 ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
