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Message-ID: <b25c5f81-ee3a-0eb1-a60d-149e46a7a419@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-09-07T13:50:35Z
From: Tomas Kalibera
Subject: strange behaviour read.table and clipboard
In-Reply-To: <2db5f6b0-e83e-3a27-8d0f-37beafa6c47e@gmail.com>

Fixed in R-devel 73212 (and 73121).

Best
Tomas

On 08/17/2017 11:58 AM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
> Thank you for the report, it is a bug in buffering in R (not specific 
> to Windows) and will be fixed.
>
> Best
> Tomas
>
> On 08/17/2017 10:37 AM, PIKAL Petr wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Robert Baer [mailto:rbaer at atsu.edu]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 3:04 PM
>>> To: PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>; Duncan Murdoch
>>> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Rd] strange behaviour read.table and clipboard
>>>
>>> You said, "put a name in the cell".  Does that mean you forgot a 
>>> header =
>>> TRUE?
>> No
>>
>> for read.delim header=TRUE is default option.
>>
>> The mentioned issue starts between R-devel r71964 and r73003
>>
>> I cannot narrow this range as I do not have available other versions 
>> between this date range.
>>
>> I tested other read.* functions and all seems to work as expected.
>>
>> The problem is connected **only** with reading from clipboard. Maybe 
>> it is the issue of Windows, but I cannot see anything weird when 
>> copying e.g. from Excel to Notepad
>>
>> Cheers
>> Petr
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/16/2017 1:25 AM, PIKAL Petr wrote:
>>>> Hi Duncan
>>>>
>>>> The simples spreadsheet is:
>>>>
>>>> Put a name in the cell, let say "a1"
>>>> Put number e.g. 1 below "a1"
>>>> Copy the number to enough rows
>>>> Select this column and press ctrl-c
>>>>
>>>> result is
>>>>
>>>>> temp<- read.delim("clipboard")
>>>>> str(temp)
>>>> 'data.frame':   1513 obs. of  1 variable:
>>>>    $ a1: Factor w/ 2 levels "1","a1": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
>>>>> which(temp$a1=="a1")
>>>> [1] 1365
>>>> I tested it in vanilla R
>>>>
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>> R Under development (unstable) (2017-07-31 r73003)
>>>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>>> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 14393)
>>>>
>>>> Matrix products: default
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=Czech_Czech Republic.1250 LC_CTYPE=Czech_Czech
>>> Republic.1250
>>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=Czech_Czech Republic.1250 LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>> [5] LC_TIME=Czech_Czech Republic.1250
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets methods   base
>>>>
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>> [1] compiler_3.5.0
>>>> Excel 16 or 15 I am not sure.
>>>>
>>>> R-devel 2015 (69443) works as expected so it started a believe 
>>>> around May
>>> or June this year, when I installed new R version.
>>>> I hope it could help to trace the problem. If I can help any 
>>>> further, let me
>>> know.
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Petr
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com]
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 12:35 AM
>>>>> To: PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>; r-devel at r-project.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Rd] strange behaviour read.table and clipboard
>>>>>
>>>>> On 15/08/2017 10:03 AM, PIKAL Petr wrote:
>>>>>> Dear all
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I used to transfer data from excel to R by simple ctrl-c and
>>>>> read.delim("clipboard") construction. I know it is a bad practice 
>>>>> but it is easy
>>>>> and for quick exploratory work it is OK. However after changing to 
>>>>> new R
>>> devel
>>>>> few days ago I encountered weird behaviour. I tried one or two 
>>>>> columns.
>>>>>
>>>>> You haven't posted something that is reproducible.  I don't have 
>>>>> Excel, but I
>>> can
>>>>> cut and paste from Libreoffice, and I don't see this.
>>>>> However, it's not the same spreadsheet as you used, so I wouldn't be
>>>>> comfortable saying I did what you did.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please reduce the size of your spreadsheet if you can, and then post
>>>>> instructions for how to construct it, and what to cut and paste 
>>>>> from it.
>>>>>     Then others can try what you did and see if this is specific 
>>>>> to your machine,
>>> to
>>>>> that particular version of R-devel, to Excel, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> In case of 2 columns, header is repeated after 526 items
>>>>>>> mar<-read.delim("clipboard")
>>>>>>> which(mar$a2=="a1")
>>>>>> [1]  525 1051 1577
>>>>>>> diff(which(mar$a2=="a1"))
>>>>>> [1] 526 526
>>>>>> and only first header item is repeated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In case of one column, header is repeated after 1107 items
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> mar<-read.delim("clipboard")
>>>>>>> diff(which(mar$a2=="a2"))
>>>>>> [1] 1107 1107
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And all items in object are therefore changed to factor.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BTW, readxl package works on same excel file smoothly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will try to download the most recent R version to check it, but 
>>>>>> it could
>>> take
>>>>> some time due to our IT issues.
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>> Petr
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> version
>>>>>>                  _
>>>>>> platform       x86_64-w64-mingw32
>>>>>> arch           x86_64
>>>>>> os             mingw32
>>>>>> system         x86_64, mingw32
>>>>>> status         Under development (unstable)
>>>>>> major          3
>>>>>> minor          5.0
>>>>>> year           2017
>>>>>> month          07
>>>>>> day            31
>>>>>> svn rev        73003
>>>>>> language       R
>>>>>> version.string R Under development (unstable) (2017-07-31 r73003)
>>>>>> nickname       Unsuffered Consequences
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>> v?slovn?m
>>> dosa?en?m shody na v?ech jej?ch n?le?itostech.
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>> Tento e-mail a jak?koliv k n?mu p?ipojen? dokumenty jsou d?v?rn? a 
>> jsou ur?eny pouze jeho adres?t?m.
>> Jestli?e jste obdr?el(a) tento e-mail omylem, informujte laskav? 
>> neprodlen? jeho odes?latele. Obsah tohoto emailu i s p??lohami a jeho 
>> kopie vyma?te ze sv?ho syst?mu.
>> Nejste-li zam??len?m adres?tem tohoto emailu, nejste opr?vn?ni tento 
>> email jakkoliv u??vat, roz?i?ovat, kop?rovat ?i zve?ej?ovat.
>> Odes?latel e-mailu neodpov?d? za eventu?ln? ?kodu zp?sobenou 
>> modifikacemi ?i zpo?d?n?m p?enosu e-mailu.
>>
>> V p??pad?, ?e je tento e-mail sou??st? obchodn?ho jedn?n?:
>> - vyhrazuje si odes?latel pr?vo ukon?it kdykoliv jedn?n? o uzav?en? 
>> smlouvy, a to z jak?hokoliv d?vodu i bez uveden? d?vodu.
>> - a obsahuje-li nab?dku, je adres?t opr?vn?n nab?dku bezodkladn? 
>> p?ijmout; Odes?latel tohoto e-mailu (nab?dky) vylu?uje p?ijet? 
>> nab?dky ze strany p??jemce s dodatkem ?i odchylkou.
>> - trv? odes?latel na tom, ?e p??slu?n? smlouva je uzav?ena teprve 
>> v?slovn?m dosa?en?m shody na v?ech jej?ch n?le?itostech.
>> - odes?latel tohoto emailu informuje, ?e nen? opr?vn?n uzav?rat za 
>> spole?nost ??dn? smlouvy s v?jimkou p??pad?, kdy k tomu byl p?semn? 
>> zmocn?n nebo p?semn? pov??en a takov? pov??en? nebo pln? moc byly 
>> adres?tovi tohoto emailu p??padn? osob?, kterou adres?t zastupuje, 
>> p?edlo?eny nebo jejich existence je adres?tovi ?i osob? j?m 
>> zastoupen? zn?m?.
>>
>> This e-mail and any documents attached to it may be confidential and 
>> are intended only for its intended recipients.
>> If you received this e-mail by mistake, please immediately inform its 
>> sender. Delete the contents of this e-mail with all attachments and 
>> its copies from your system.
>> If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are not 
>> authorized to use, disseminate, copy or disclose this e-mail in any 
>> manner.
>> The sender of this e-mail shall not be liable for any possible damage 
>> caused by modifications of the e-mail or by delay with transfer of 
>> the email.
>>
>> In case that this e-mail forms part of business dealings:
>> - the sender reserves the right to end negotiations about entering 
>> into a contract in any time, for any reason, and without stating any 
>> reasoning.
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>> immediately accept such offer; The sender of this e-mail (offer) 
>> excludes any acceptance of the offer on the part of the recipient 
>> containing any amendment or variation.
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>> only upon an express mutual agreement on all its aspects.
>> - the sender of this e-mail informs that he/she is not authorized to 
>> enter into any contracts on behalf of the company except for cases in 
>> which he/she is expressly authorized to do so in writing, and such 
>> authorization or power of attorney is submitted to the recipient or 
>> the person represented by the recipient, or the existence of such 
>> authorization is known to the recipient of the person represented by 
>> the recipient.
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