[R] Reading one column .csv file

[David L Carlson]

On the Mac try pipe("pbpaste") instead of "clipboard."

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David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352


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> Subject: Re: [R] Reading one column .csv file
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Interesting. Never heard of copying from the clipboard. I am also on a
> MacBook Pro, but I cannot get it to work.
> 
> 1. I selected the column of data (including the header) in Excel.
> 
> 2. Selected Edit->Copy.
> 
> 3. In R, tried:
> 
> > a <- read.delim("clipboard")
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") : clipboard cannot be opened or contains no text
> 
> 4. I checked the clipboard. The data is there.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> D.
> 
> 
> 
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