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. -- David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.