[R] Easy cut & paste from Excel to R?

[Uwe Ligges]

Werner Wernersen wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Is it possible to easily cut & paste data from an
> Excel spreadsheet to 
> an R edit( ) grid or to variable?
> It seems that R cannot handle the cell delimiters
> Excel hands over.
> 
> Regards,
>   Werner
> 
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copy in Excel and say in R:
read.table(file("clipboard"))

Uwe Ligges