I am trying to import some files from excel (xlsx) to R. However, some of these files have a ~$ in the title. E.g. folder_name/~$file_i_want.xlsx.

Reading online, I see that a ~$ might indicate that the file is a temporary file or an incomplete file.

Normally, I import files into R using some either the data.table::fread(), read.csv or readxl::read_excel() functions. However, none of these functions appear to be working.

Is it some how possible to force R to import these files?

Thanks