Yes, you can, as documented in ?connections, but on the Mac you would have to use:
read.delim(pipe("pbpaste")) You can also use pbcopy to copy to the clipboard. > Dear R users, > > I am trying to get data from the clipboard into R on MacOSX. I tried > the following, but got an error message: > > read.delim("clipboard") > Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection > In addition: Warning message: > unable to contact X11 display > > Obviously, I'm not running R using X11. I'm wondering, can I import > data from the clipboard on MacosX? > > Thanks in advance, > > Rense Nieuwenhuis > > > version > _ > platform powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0 > arch powerpc > os darwin8.6.0 > system powerpc, darwin8.6.0 > status > major 2 > minor 3.0 > year 2006 > month 04 > day 24 > svn rev 37909 > language R > version.string Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24) [[alternative text/enriched version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.