Dear R users,
I am trying to get data from the clipboard into R on MacOSX. I tried
the following, but got an error message:
read.delim("clipboard")
Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning message:
unable to contact X11 display
Obviously, I'm not running R using X11. I'm wondering, can I import
data from the clipboard on MacosX?
Thanks in advance,
Rense Nieuwenhuis
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os darwin8.6.0
system powerpc, darwin8.6.0
status
major 2
minor 3.0
year 2006
month 04
day 24
svn rev 37909
language R
version.string Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)
Hi Rense,
Not sure how robust this is, but maybe to get you started:
In R console:
> a <- 1:10
Copy that line to or part of it to the clipboard.
> system("osascript -e 'set y to the clipboard' -e 'tell
application
\"R.app\" to cmd y'")
If course you could use this in an R function. I would opt for using
a file to read in the data.
As this is Mac specific, maybe a better list is R-SIG-Mac.
Rob
On Aug 26, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Rense Nieuwenhuis wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> I am trying to get data from the clipboard into R on MacOSX. I tried
> the following, but got an error message:
>
> read.delim("clipboard")
> Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> unable to contact X11 display
>
> Obviously, I'm not running R using X11. I'm wondering, can I import
> data from the clipboard on MacosX?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rense Nieuwenhuis
>
>> version
> _
> platform powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0
> arch powerpc
> os darwin8.6.0
> system powerpc, darwin8.6.0
> status
> major 2
> minor 3.0
> year 2006
> month 04
> day 24
> svn rev 37909
> language R
> version.string Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)
>
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Oops, forgot to include the Subject. sorry for that
sloppiness.
Yes, you can, as documented in ?connections, but
on the Mac you would have to use:
read.delim(pipe("pbpaste"))
You can also use pbcopy to copy to the clipboard.
> Dear R users,
>
> I am trying to get data from the clipboard into R on MacOSX. I tried
> the following, but got an error message:
>
> read.delim("clipboard")
> Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> unable to contact X11 display
>
> Obviously, I'm not running R using X11. I'm wondering, can I import
> data from the clipboard on MacosX?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rense Nieuwenhuis
>
> > version
> _
> platform powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0
> arch powerpc
> os darwin8.6.0
> system powerpc, darwin8.6.0
> status
> major 2
> minor 3.0
> year 2006
> month 04
> day 24
> svn rev 37909
> language R
> version.string Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)
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