[R] read ".slk" file

[Jeff Newmiller]

I suspect this could be SYLK format, a very old spreadsheet exchange format. The only hit that I get from RSiteSearch("sylk") is read.gnumeric.sheet, which depends on an external program "ssconvert" to extract CSV. In the plus department, it is a text-based format that has been implemented numerous times so you could roll your own reader based on open source code. In the minus department, there is no published specification, so if your files have quirks then you will have to work around them one by one, and it really is like Latin... a dead language.
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PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:
>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
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of Santosh
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 12:11 AM
>> To: r-help
>> Subject: [R] 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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