According to the microsoft site "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323626", SYLK files are 
ordinary text or csv files with a peculiar character in that the first two characters of the file are the uppercase letters.
		  For example for a csv file, the first column may contain the variable identity written as "ID". Excel would indicate this as a SYLK file. The way around this is to change the variable name to lower case "id" then you can save this file in any format that is readable to R.

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--- On Wed, 2/25/09, GOUACHE David <D.GOUACHE@arvalisinstitutduvegetal.fr> wrote:
From: GOUACHE David <D.GOUACHE@arvalisinstitutduvegetal.fr>
Subject: [R] read multiplan or sylk files in R
To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 7:48 AM

Hello,

This may sound crazy, but I have a large number of Multiplan data files I'm
in the process of recuperating, and I'm hoping to avoid having to open them
one by one to convert them into a modern, directly usable format. So I was
wondering if someone somewhere had encountered this and maybe had a way to read
Multiplan files in R, or, at least, a way to read SYLK files directly in R.

Any help appreciated.
Thanks.

David Gouache
ARVALIS - Institut du végétal
Station de La Minière
78280 Guyancourt
Tel: 01.30.12.96.22 / Port: 06.86.08.94.32

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