[R] read password-protected files

Shi, Tao shidaxia at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 31 20:33:47 CEST 2011


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



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From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>

Cc: r-help at 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?
>
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>
>
> ...Tao
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>
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> 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.


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