[R] Questions

[peter dalgaard]

On May 1, 2012, at 06:47 , Jeff Newmiller wrote:

> This is not the RStudio support forum. I use it, I like it, but you need to learn the difference between R and RStudio.
> 
> In this case, the fact that you are using RStudio is probably irrelevant. What is more relevant is that you are not on windows, though I can't be sure what OS you actually are using. Your error message refers to UNIX, you refer to Excel, so you could be on MacOSX or on windows with a pipe into a UNIX server. (If the latter, the RStudio support team may have a FAQ on this problem.) Please read the Posting Guide mentioned at the end of every message on this list.
> I Googled this problem and found https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-October/116363.html, which probably applies, but only you can tell for sure.

A couple of red herrings here, I suspect. If it is a Mac issue, then R-sig-Mac could be relevant (although I'm beginning to have doubts that we should send _all_ entry-level Mac issues there, when corresponding Windows issues are not similarly diverted).

The Clipboard section in help(file) is informative. Indeed, on OSX, this works:

> write.table(airquality,pipe("pbcopy"))
> head(read.table(pipe("pbpaste")))
  Ozone Solar.R Wind Temp Month Day
1    41     190  7.4   67     5   1
2    36     118  8.0   72     5   2
3    12     149 12.6   74     5   3
4    18     313 11.5   62     5   4
5    NA      NA 14.3   56     5   5
6    28      NA 14.9   66     5   6

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