[R-SIG-Mac] Scripting R

[Simon Urbanek]

Since this part of the thread is more about Excel/R GUI data copying  
-- the easiest solution is to use clipboard and it's easily scriptable:

* select a table in Excel
* Copy (<Cmd><C>)
* switch to R and run
   read.table(pipe("pbpaste -"),T,"\t")

-- if you didn't include column headers in the paste operation use  
instead:
  read.table(pipe("pbpaste -"),F,"\t")

Clearly, the above is done best with AS:

tell application "Microsoft Excel" to activate
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Microsoft Excel"
		click menu item "Copy" of menu "Edit" of menu bar 1
	end tell
end tell
tell application "R"
	activate
	cmd "read.table(pipe('pbpaste -'),T,'\\t')"
end tell

(You can actually remove the "Microsoft Excel" parts and it will work  
with any active app such as Numbers)

Bind to a key and all you have to do is to select your table and hit  
that key ...

Cheers,
Simon


On Jan 30, 2009, at 4:53 , Christian Prinoth wrote:

> Emiliano,
> what you suggest I have already implemented, although it is a bit
> sluggish, especially if moving back and forth big chunks of data.
> The reason I am looking into this is that on windows platforms in my
> organization many people are using Excel as a frontend and R as a
> calculation workhorse. Most people are familiar with organizing and
> handling data in Excel, and though I agree that complex datasets are
> better handled directly by R, some tasks work very well with the above
> mentioned setup.
> I am currently trying to push for a move to OSX, and having very  
> similar
> tools available would be of great help and smooth the transition.
>
> Christian Prinoth <cp at epsilonsgr.it>
> Epsilon SGR
> +39-02-88102355
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Emiliano Guevara [mailto:emiguevara at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 29 January, 2009 20:28
>> To: Christian Prinoth
>> Cc: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Scripting R
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> maybe my reply will be too foolish... but I'll try anyway!
>>
>> Can't you just use .CSV as an interface format between any  
>> spreadsheet
>> software and R?
>>
>> That makes data sharing really very simple by using read.csv and
>> read.csv2 to get the data into R, and then write.csv and write.csv2
>> to save for the spreadsheet.
>>
>> I imagine you can easily make an Applescript wrapper to make the
>> transition look a lot more like a GUI feature...
>> but then, why on earth would you need to use something like Excel
>> when you are already using R???
>>
>> anyway, good luck!
>>
>> E.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 29, 2009, at 17:03 PM, Christian Prinoth wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> is there something similar to rcom on OSX? I understand
>> that R for OSX
>>> has some limited applescript support, but I was wondering if there
>>> is an
>>> easy way to share data with other applications. My ultimate
>> goal would
>>> be to use R together with a spreadsheet as I can currently do on
>>> windows
>>> with R, rcom and Excel.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Christian Prinoth <cp at epsilonsgr.it>
>>> Epsilon SGR
>>> +39-02-88102355
>>
>>
>>
>> **************************************************************
>> **********
>> Emiliano R. Guevara
>> Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies --
>> University of Oslo
>> PO Box 1102 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
>>   emiguevara at gmail.com
>> **************************************************************
>> **********
>>
>>
>>
>>
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