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

[Ken Knoblauch]

You are right.  The warning disappears at exactly five lines of data,
not including the header.  

Well, how often do you come across a data.frame with less than 5 rows
and too many covariates to enter by hand?

kk


Quoting Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>:

> 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.
> 
> 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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