Pasting tabs into the console works for me on linux, which suggests that you need to provide more information about your OS and all the other usual things.
Sarah On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Dear R-help Members, > > I have noticed that when pasting text with "tab" in it to the R console it > eliminates the tab. Whereas, when pasted into the R Editor, the tab is > preserved. > For example, pasting this: > "1997 7680" > In the R Console will result in: > "19977680" > > Is there a way to preserve the tab? > This would allow (for example) to use read.table with a table copied from > website/libre-office/excel such as: > > a = read.table( text= > " > 1 2 > 3 4 > ") > a > > I understand I can use readClipboard directly, but I wonder if there is a > way to use it while the text is kept in the R Editor. > > > With regards, > Tal -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.
