[R] pipe Apple

[Don MacQueen]

This expression,
    read.table(pipe("pbpaste"))
does work for me on an OS X 10.4.9 system.
And it was working 2 years ago on a 10.3.8 system (an older R, obviously).

I would look to how R was installed, what version of R, that kind of thing.
Use the sessionInfo() command to provide that information.
(the posting guide asks for information about the R version, without 
which it is more difficult to help)

What does the R expression
    capabilities()
return?

Also, if what she's copying and pasting from is Excel, the gdata 
package has a function read.xls() function which can read data 
directly from Excel.

-Don

At 12:39 PM -0500 3/29/07, A. Beaujean wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a student trying to run R on an Apple (OS 10.3.9). She tried to
>cut-and-paste the data via the code:
>data<-read.table(pipe("pbpaste"))
>
>But she keeps getting the error message:
>'error in pipe("pbpaste"):  pipe connections are not available on this
>system'
>
>I do not know much about using an Apple. Has anyone run into this before?
>Does anyone have any ideas for how to fix the problem?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Alex
>
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Don MacQueen
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