> read.table("clipboard") still works on my R 2.4.1 if you have x11 open, > but not if you don't. That's an anomaly then: I have X11 open and it doesn't work for me. version.string R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23) X11 1.1.3 - XFree86 4.4.0 OS X 10.4.9 (8P135)