On May 1, 2012, at 06:47 , Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> This is not the RStudio support forum. I use it, I like it, but you need to
> learn the difference between R and RStudio.
>
> In this case, the fact that you are using RStudio is probably irrelevant.
> What is more relevant is that you are not on windows, though I can't be sure
> what OS you actually are using. Your error message refers to UNIX, you refer
> to Excel, so you could be on MacOSX or on windows with a pipe into a UNIX
> server. (If the latter, the RStudio support team may have a FAQ on this
> problem.) Please read the Posting Guide mentioned at the end of every message
> on this list.
> I Googled this problem and found
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-October/116363.html, which
> probably applies, but only you can tell for sure.
A couple of red herrings here, I suspect. If it is a Mac issue, then R-sig-Mac
could be relevant (although I'm beginning to have doubts that we should send
_all_ entry-level Mac issues there, when corresponding Windows issues are not
similarly diverted).
The Clipboard section in help(file) is informative. Indeed, on OSX, this works:
> write.table(airquality,pipe("pbcopy"))
> head(read.table(pipe("pbpaste")))
Ozone Solar.R Wind Temp Month Day
1 41 190 7.4 67 5 1
2 36 118 8.0 72 5 2
3 12 149 12.6 74 5 3
4 18 313 11.5 62 5 4
5 NA NA 14.3 56 5 5
6 28 NA 14.9 66 5 6
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