[R] problems with clipboard

[Jamie.lannister]

Thank you very much!
See, I'm a new user both for R and mac...... :-)

Jamie.


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, 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?
> 
> See the help for 'file'.  It says (on a Mac) that file("clipboard") 
> reads the 'X11 primary selection', and also says
> 
>       Mac OS X users can use 'pipe("pbpaste")' and 'pipe("pbcopy", "w")'
>       to read from and write to that system's clipboard.
> 
> The problem is that most windows managers on Unix-alikes have multiple 
> clipboards and working out which text is in which clipboard is tricky, 
> not least as some applications (and some window managers) try to be 
> helpful and copy to more than one clipboard.  That's why this may 
> sometimes appear to work and sometimes not.
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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