[R] Easy cut & paste from Excel to R?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Ken Knoblauch wrote:
>
>> I tried the interesting suggestion below, discussed in several postings 
>> yesterday on the help-list, on my Mac (0S 10.3.7) but could not get it to
>> work, as shown in the tests indicated below.
>> 
>> 
>>>>  read.table(file("clipboard"), sep="\t", dec=",")
>
> Connections to the clipboard are only available on Windows.

Ken is of course welcome to contribute them for MacOS X (or indeed for X11).
People do take for granted the work the developers do to provide such 
things ....

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