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.
Have a great day. -- A Smile costs Nothing But Rewards Everything - Anonymous Happiness is not perfected until it is shared -Jane Porter --- On Wed, 2/25/09, GOUACHE David <d.goua...@arvalisinstitutduvegetal.fr> wrote: From: GOUACHE David <d.goua...@arvalisinstitutduvegetal.fr> Subject: [R] read multiplan or sylk files in R To: r-h...@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 ______________________________________________ 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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