Thank you very much! See, I'm a new user both for R and mac...... :-) Jamie.
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > 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. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problems-with-clipboard-tp23280578p23295816.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.