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

[Peter Dalgaard]

Don MacQueen <macq at llnl.gov> writes:

> I tried Ken's suggestion
>     read.table(pipe("pbpaste"),header=TRUE)
> on my Mac OS X system and it worked *without* generating any warning message.
> 
> If my experience represents the norm, and Ken's is the exception, it
> is so simple that no further contribution to R is needed, I would say.
> Thank you, Ken.

My conjecture is that it only happens when there are fewer than 5 data
lines. 

We still need to sort out X11. Too bad that the xclip program isn't
ubiquitous. 

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