> On Oct 3, 2018, at 9:22 AM, Robert Baer <rb...@atsu.edu> wrote:
>
> My memory is that on the Mac
>
> dat = read.table(file = pipe("pbpaste"), header = TRUE) # should allow
> me to paste a dataframe copied from a spreadsheet into R.
>
> When I try that in RStudio 1.1.456 with R 3.5.1 on OSX 10.13.1
>
> I get the message:
>
> incomplete line found by readTableHeader on 'pbpaste'
>
> Could anyone explain this message to me, and more importantly, tell me the
> proper way to paste a dataframe copied to the clipboard from Excel on the Mac?
>
>
Hi,
The default cell (field) delimiter with Excel is the TAB character, so you want
to use something like:
read.table(pipe("pbpaste"), sep = "\t", header = TRUE)
Note that you will likely get a warning along the lines of what you got above,
which I believe is due to Excel not having an EOL for the final row in the
clipboard.
Regards,
Marc Schwartz
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