On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Don MacQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I tried Ken's suggestion read.table(pipe("pbpaste"),header=TRUE) on my Mac OS X system and it worked *without* generating any warning message.
If my experience represents the norm, and Ken's is the exception, it is so simple that no further contribution to R is needed, I would say. Thank you, Ken.
My conjecture is that it only happens when there are fewer than 5 data lines.
We still need to sort out X11. Too bad that the xclip program isn't ubiquitous.
The read side in X11 is not too hard, and R-devel now has read from the primary selection via file("clipboard"). (I may change that name and allow reading from other selections later: I just made small changes to the Windows code.)
Xlib doesn't it seems really have a clipboard, and so it is much harder to act as the provider of the primary selection (you need to respond to X11 events) -- xclip forks to do so.
BTW, xclip is at http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip/ and seems no longer under active development (last change 18 months ago).
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