[R] Importing data from clipboard on Mac OSX

[Rob J Goedman]

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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