[R] problems with clipboard

[Kevin Middleton]

Jamie,

Try it as:

data2 <- read.table(pipe('pbpaste'), header = T)

I have a read.clipboard() function defined in ~/.Rprofile:

read.clipboard <- function(){read.table(pipe('pbpaste'), header = T)}

Also see the "Clipboard" section of ?pipe.

Cheers,
Kevin


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Kevin M. Middleton
Department of Biology
California State University San Bernardino
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino CA 92407


On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Jamie.lannister wrote:

>
> Hi I'm a mac user. I have problems loading data from mac excel in R.
> I'm using these script:
>> library(utils)
>> data2 <- read.table(file("clipboard"), header =T, sep ="\t")
> ____but this is the message that I have from R_____
> Error in open.connection(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In open.connection(file, "r") :
>  clipboard cannot be opened or contains no text
>
> More complicate then that is that sometimes it works sometimes  
> no.......
> I'm very confuse.... any help?
>
> Jamie
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