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. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Reading-one-column-csv-file-tp4640396p4640429.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.