On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Rich FitzJohn wrote:
Hi Chris,
From ?file:Clipboard: ... When writing to the clipboard, the output is copied to the clipboard only when the connection is closed or flushed. There is a 32Kb limit on the text to be written to the clipboard. This can be raised by using e.g. 'file("clipboard-128")' on NT-based versions of Windows, to give 128Kb.
So,write.table(dm, "clipboard", sep="\t")Warning message: clipboard buffer is full and output lostwrite.table(dm, "clipboard-128", sep = "\t")
Just to add: this is not the same as copying in Excel or a text editor.
The equivalent of that is writeClipboard(), and that is not limited by R
(although it is by Windows). Here you are treating the clipboard as a sequential file.
The reason for the choice of 32Kb is that is the clipboard limit on 16-bit versions of Windows, perpetuated in Win95 (at least).
On 4/21/05, Chris Bergstresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi all --
I have a matrix of doubles (roughly 30x80) which I'd like to copy to the clipboard. However, as the following shows:
dm = matrix(runif(30 * 80), nrow = 80) write.table(dm, "clipboard", sep = "\t")Warning message: clipboard buffer is full and output lost
Is there any way to increase the buffer? Obviously, other programs don't have the same limitations (i.e., I can copy the same volume of data from Excel or my text editor and paste it into R without a problem)
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