R help - Jan 2009 - Importing data from clipboard on Mac OSX

Hello R-Help,

I noticed that there is a thread about importing data from the clipboard
that is very poorly answered in the forum. One user suggests giving up, the
other gives a solution that echoes the clipboard, but that's exactly the
same as just ctrl-p. As I am asked this question at least once a week in my
very small home institution, I'm sure many people want to know. If you could
post somewhere that for most Macs you can 

read.table(pipe("pbpaste")) will work for almost all applications,
that
would be very helpful.

Thank you,
Christian Anderson

 


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On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Christian Anderson wrote:
> Hello R-Help,
>
> I noticed that there is a thread about importing data from the clipboard
> that is very poorly answered in the forum. One user suggests giving up, the
> other gives a solution that echoes the clipboard, but that's exactly
the
> same as just ctrl-p. As I am asked this question at least once a week in my
> very small home institution, I'm sure many people want to know. If you
could
> post somewhere that for most Macs you can
>
> read.table(pipe("pbpaste")) will work for almost all
applications, that
> would be very helpful.

?pipe says:


  Clipboard:

  ...

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


HTH,

Chuck

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> Thank you,
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