[R-SIG-Mac] Interacting with R GUI app from another Cocoa app

[Christian Prinoth]

Some time ago I was exploring the general issue of "remote controlling"
R from different apps, eg Excel or Openoffice. Simon Urbanek suggested
using the clipboard (pasted from his post):

-- 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")

This appears to work fairly well, at least for me. You should probably
write a function copying your data to the clipboard.


Christian Prinoth <cp at epsilonsgr.it>
Epsilon SGR
+39-02-88102355


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-mac-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Neil Tiffin
> Sent: 29 November, 2009 21:16
> To: Guillaume Chapron
> Cc: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Interacting with R GUI app from
> another Cocoa app
>
> You might try to write the results into a file and read it
> back in R.  
> This is probably safer anyway.

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