[R-SIG-Mac] Clipboard problems

[Hans-Jörg Bibiko]

On 03 Sep 2014, at 14:29, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

> This works, presumably because text connections are not non-blocking:
> 
>> readLines(textConnection(system("pbpaste",intern=TRUE)))
> [1] "line 1" "line 2" "line 3”

or the following should also work on each OSX

readLines(pipe("pbpaste|awk 1”))


Cheers,
Hans




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