Wishlist - access non-text from clipboard in Windows

Hi, I am just trying it now.  Suppose I copy the first few lines of
the table at:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2006/CumulativePL.php

into the clipboard by selecting them with the mouse in IE and
pressing ctrl-C.  Now I can just go to Excel, click on a cell
and press ctrl-V and they get pasted as cells.  In fact,
that is usually what I would do: paste it into Excel and then
transfer it to R.

Is this correct?

readClipboard(49340)  # got number from getClipboardFormats()

and then parse the HTML that I get from that.

I guess what would be nice would be if one could somehow use
read.table to read it in and directly get a data frame out.

Regards.

I've just committed some code to R-devel to allow clipboard access to
non-text in Windows.  This was something we discussed last September.
I'm not completely happy with the code (it works with numerical
clipboard format numbers rather than translating them into their names),
but I'd rather make it available than work on it any more.

Duncan Murdoch