Instead of "clipboard", Try,

read.table(pipe("pbpaste"), header = T, ...)

Likewise, when exporting data from R to other applications, you could use;

write.table(pipe("pbcopy"), ...)


This convention is said to be originated from the NeXT days, during which the clipboard was called the 'pasteboard.'

Thanks


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> From: Jeffrey.Morris@sanofipasteur.com
> To: r-sig-mac@r-project.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 9:22:04 AM
> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Read.delim on a Mac
> 
> I am beginning to set up R at home on my Macbook running Leopard 10.6
> and trying to mimic the workflow I use at work, on Windows. Here is my
> question...when I run 
> > read.delim("clipboard") I get the following
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection In addition:
> Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") : clipboard cannot be opened or contains no text
> 
> Is there some basic problem with reading data in using the clipboard
> like this?
> 
> Thanks
> Jeff
> 
> Jeffrey D. Morris, Ph.D.
> Sanofi Pasteur
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