On 15-08-2012, at 23:11, darnold wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Interesting. Never heard of copying from the clipboard. I am also on a
> MacBook Pro, but I cannot get it to work.
>
So you are running Mac OS X?
> 1. I selected the column of data (including the header) in Excel.
>
> 2. Selected Edit->Copy.
>
> 3. In R, tried:
>
>> a <- read.delim("clipboard")
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") : clipboard cannot be opened or contains no text
>
> 4. I checked the clipboard. The data is there.
See ? connections Section "Clipboard"
a <- read.delim(pipe("pbpaste"))
Berend
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