[R] Odp: Trouble with read.table(clipboard)

[David Winsemius]

On the Mac, reading from the the clipboard is:
pipe("pbpaste")
... and writing to the clipboard:
pipe("pbcopy", "w")
?pipe
--  
David
On Dec 1, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Petr PIKAL wrote:

> Hi
>
> did you put your spreadsheet to the clipboard? I  am not sure if trick
> with Ctrl-C followed by read.delim("clipboard") functions in Mac so  
> maybe
> you will need to try some more elaborated procedure which was  
> suggested
> several times here and I believe is also mentioned in Data import/ 
> export
> manual.
>
> Regards
> Petr
>
> r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 01.12.2009 12:29:24:
>
>> Hi every one,
>> I'm having some problems with the function read.table(clipboard). I  
>> got
> a
>> spread sheet in the Excel, and than I make a command+C in the Mac,  
>> but
> the R
>> returns the message that there is no object in the clipboard.
>> What could have happened?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Diogo
>>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT