subject:"\[R\] Reading XML files masquerading as XL files"

Re: [R] Reading XML files masquerading as XL files

2011-08-10 Thread Duncan Temple Lang

Hi Dennis That those files are in a directory/folder suggests that they were extracted from their zip (.xlsx) file. The following are the basic contents of the .xlsx file 1484 02-28-11 12:48 [Content_Types].xml 733 02-28-11 12:48 _rels/.rels 972 02-28-11 12:48 xl/_rels

[R] Reading XML files masquerading as XL files

2011-08-10 Thread Dennis Fisher

R version 2.13.1 OS X (or Windows) Colleagues, I received a number of files with a .xls extension. These files open in XL and, by all appearances, are XL files. However, it appears to me that the files are actually XML: > readLines(dir()[16])[1:10] [1] ""