[R] pipe Apple

A. Beaujean
2007-03-29T17:39:08Z

Hi,

I have a student trying to run R on an Apple (OS 10.3.9). She tried to
cut-and-paste the data via the code:
data<-read.table(pipe("pbpaste"))

But she keeps getting the error message:
'error in pipe("pbpaste"):  pipe connections are not available on
this
system'

I do not know much about using an Apple. Has anyone run into this before?
Does anyone have any ideas for how to fix the problem?

Thanks!

Alex

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