[R] tkclipboard.append(...) and TCL_LIBRARY not set

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Matej Cepl wrote:

> ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> > > Will this function do what I seek? Or if not, does anyone
> > > know of such an R function?
> >
> > This doesn't make sense to me.  An R object is not something
> > the clipboard can understand.  What exactly do you want to copy
> > to the clipboard? The contents of a character vector, perhaps?
>
> Do not want to argue with prof. Ripley, but I have just got my
> hand on a copy of MASS (and it is really great book, thanks!),
> and there I read on page 34: ``The filename clipboard may be used
> on Windows to refer to the Windows clipboard for input or output
> (but the file length is limited to 32Kb).''

You must have got an obselete edition, then!  (It's not in the current
edition.)  It talks about data files, not S-PLUS objects in the third
edition.

> So it was possible to do something like it even on the late
> Windows 3.*. Why it shouldn't be possible now (or was the feature
> in S-PLUS such disaster?).

Because we are talking about the difference between objects and data
files.  I think Graham meant the result of printing the object, not the
object itself.

One day it will be possible to use "clipboard" on R for Windows too, but
the amount of programming needed looked non-trivial to Guido and I when we
looked at it.

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