[R-SIG-Mac] source from clipboard

[Prof Brian Ripley]

?clipboard in R has a whole section on this.

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On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Adrian Dusa wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Apologies for noob questions, under Linux (and Windows) I extensively used:
> source("clipboard")
> in order to paste commands without cluttering the R session.
>
> Under Mac this has to be somehow different, because I get:
>> source("clipboard")
> Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>  cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>  clipboard cannot be opened or contains no text
>
> I assume this is general Mac behavior, but if it's related to my
> locale then I will provide the relevant info.
> Thanks in advance for any hint,
> Adrian
>
> PS: I do of course use Cmd+C under Mac to copy commands in the clipboard
>
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