[Rd] Clipboard connections (PR#8668)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

This is not a bug, but user error.  You are failing to close the 
connection.  R has no idea you do not subsequently want to use the 
connection via getConnection.  As the help page ?file and its reference, 
and also the R-news article on connections.

The correct usage is either

source("clipboard")

or

zz <- file("clipboard")
source(zz)
close(zz)

BTW, there are no `clipboard connections': there are file connections to 
the clipboard on Windows only.


On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, graywh at gmail.com wrote:

> Full_Name: Will Gray
> Version: R 2.2.1
> OS: WinXP SP2
> Submission from: (NULL) (160.129.18.69)
>
>
> I've been using R with a text editor (Tinn-R) and using a feature of the editor
> that sends code to a running R session.  Sometimes it is convenient to use the
> command "source(file('clipboard'))" to send whole blocks of code.  However, this
> quickly fills up the limit of 50 connections, even if 47 are closed.  What does
> R hold on to connections it doesn't need, and especially multiple closed
> connections to the clipboard?  Should this be changed?
>
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