On 9/22/2005 1:12 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > There is an open source clipboard extender CLCL that handles all > clipboard formats. I think this code could be leveraged to simplify > it substantially. Run CLCL and copy something from IE or Excel, > say, so that you have a complex object in the clipboard. > Now expand Clipboard in the left pane and the various components > in the clipboard are shown in the tree as children. You can right click > and save any of them. > > If this code could be followed it might be simple to just have a new > argument to clipboard() which specified which component to return > or one could optionally return a list of all of them.
We'd need to write clipboard() first. This might be a good idea, but it's not at the top of my priority list. I think a better thing for R to do is to make sure it's easy for package writers to write connections. Then a package writer could write clipboard(), and it would fit into the rest of the R machinery. Duncan Murdoch > > On 9/22/05, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 9/22/2005 11:13 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> > Just wanted to post this wishlist item. >> > >> > Currently one can read text from the Windows clipboard but the Windows >> > clipboard can hold all sorts of objects, not just text, and it can >> > hold them simultaneously. For example, if one selects some cells in >> > Excel and then copies them to the clipboard, the clipboard will have >> > all the cell boundary information but R can only read the text and >> > will have to figure it out if it can. >> > >> > It would be nice if the user could use R to access all the information on >> > the clipboard, not just the text. >> >> This looks like something someone should write a package to do. It >> needs lots of support (e.g. what do all the possible clipboard format >> constants mean, what binary format corresponds to each, etc.), but it >> would only be useful on the Windows platform. >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
