On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Jamie.lannister wrote:
Hi I'm a mac user. I have problems loading data from mac excel in R.
I'm using these script:
library(utils)
data2 <- read.table(file("clipboard"), header =T, sep ="\t")
____but this is the message that I have from R_____
Error in open.connection(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In open.connection(file, "r") :
clipboard cannot be opened or contains no text
More complicate then that is that sometimes it works sometimes no.......
I'm very confuse.... any help?
See the help for 'file'. It says (on a Mac) that file("clipboard")
reads the 'X11 primary selection', and also says
Mac OS X users can use 'pipe("pbpaste")' and 'pipe("pbcopy", "w")'
to read from and write to that system's clipboard.
The problem is that most windows managers on Unix-alikes have multiple
clipboards and working out which text is in which clipboard is tricky,
not least as some applications (and some window managers) try to be
helpful and copy to more than one clipboard. That's why this may
sometimes appear to work and sometimes not.
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