[R] problems with clipboard

Jamie.lannister mp248 at le.ac.uk
Wed Apr 29 13:55:20 CEST 2009


Thank you very much.
I'll try.
Jamie

Kevin Middleton-3 wrote:
> 
> 
> Jamie,
> 
> Try it as:
> 
> data2 <- read.table(pipe('pbpaste'), header = T)
> 
> I have a read.clipboard() function defined in ~/.Rprofile:
> 
> read.clipboard <- function(){read.table(pipe('pbpaste'), header = T)}
> 
> Also see the "Clipboard" section of ?pipe.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> Kevin M. Middleton
> Department of Biology
> California State University San Bernardino
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> 
> 
> On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Jamie.lannister wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi I'm a mac user. I have problems loading data from mac excel in R.
>> I'm using these script:
>>> library(utils)
>>> data2 <- read.table(file("clipboard"), header =T, sep ="\t")
>> ____but this is the message that I have from R_____
>> Error in open.connection(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In open.connection(file, "r") :
>>  clipboard cannot be opened or contains no text
>>
>> More complicate then that is that sometimes it works sometimes  
>> no.......
>> I'm very confuse.... any help?
>>
>> Jamie
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