X11 copy & paste (was: Re: [R] Easy cut & paste from Excel to R?)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Bernhard Bruemmer wrote:

> Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Does Perl qualify as ubiquitous?

It is specifically not required for R at runtime: see the `Writing R 
Extensions' manual.

> If so, the piped xclip call can be
> substituted for by the following:
>
> data <- read.delim(pipe("perl -MTk -e 'print MainWindow->new->SelectionGet'"))
>
> Works fine under Linux.
>
> HTH, Bernhard
>
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