[R] cygwin clipboard

Duncan Murdoch murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Wed May 22 00:54:00 CEST 2019


On 21/05/2019 10:55 a.m., Ed Siefker wrote:
> I'd like to be able to access the windows clipboard from R under Cygwin.
> But...
> 
>> read.table(file="clipboard")
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") : unable to contact X11 display
>>
> 
> Is this supported in any way?  Thanks

Cygwin is not supported in any way by the R project, as far as I know. 
There's a native Windows build that is supported, and I'd strongly 
recommend you use it instead.

Duncan Murdoch



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