[R-SIG-Mac] Cant read file from clipboard

[Marc Schwartz]

Hi,

On macOS, you would generally want to use:

  read.delim(file = pipe("pbpaste"))

See the "Clipboard" section of ?connections, where you will find:

"macOS users can use pipe("pbpaste") and pipe("pbcopy", "w") to read from and write to that system's clipboard."

Regards,

Marc Schwartz


> On Jan 16, 2025, at 1:06 PM, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried below unsuccessfully,
> 
> read.delim(file = 'clipboard')
> 
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> 
> In addition: Warning message:
> 
> In file(file, "rt") : unable to contact X11 display
> 
> Any pointer on how to resolve this issue will be very helpful.
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> 
> R version 4.4.0 (2024-04-24)
> 
> Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
> 
> Running under: macOS 15.2
> 
> 
> Matrix products: default
> 
> BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
> 
> LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;
> LAPACK version 3.12.0
> 
> 
> locale:
> 
> [1] C/UTF-8/C/C/C/C
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> attached base packages:
> 
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> 
> other attached packages:
> 
> [1] readxl_1.4.3
> 
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> 
> [1] compiler_4.4.0   magrittr_2.0.3   cli_3.6.2        tools_4.4.0
> 
> [5] pillar_1.9.0     glue_1.7.0       tibble_3.2.1     utf8_1.2.4
> 
> [9] fansi_1.0.6      cellranger_1.1.0 vctrs_0.6.5      lifecycle_1.0.4
> 
> [13] pkgconfig_2.0.3  rlang_1.1.4
> 
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