[R] Importing data from clipboard on Mac OSX

[Charles C. Berry]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Christian Anderson wrote:

> Hello R-Help,
>
> I noticed that there is a thread about importing data from the clipboard
> that is very poorly answered in the forum. One user suggests giving up, the
> other gives a solution that echoes the clipboard, but that's exactly the
> same as just ctrl-p. As I am asked this question at least once a week in my
> very small home institution, I'm sure many people want to know. If you could
> post somewhere that for most Macs you can
>
> read.table(pipe("pbpaste")) will work for almost all applications, that
> would be very helpful.


?pipe says:


  Clipboard:

  ...

      MacOS X users can use 'pipe("pbpaste")' and 'pipe("pbcopy", "w")'
      to read from and write to that system's clipboard.


HTH,

Chuck


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