On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Byron Ellis wrote:
> I have a stupid question. Why is the clipboard accessed through file()
> and not, say, a clipboard() connection? Is there a good reason for
> this or is it simply historical?
You can in most uses replace file("clipboard") by "clipboard".
In fact internally file, clipboard and url connections are separate (and
show up so under showConnections), but all three can be accessed via
file().
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