Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608311319460.21681@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2006-08-31T12:22:11Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Suggestion for read.table()
In-Reply-To: <C07BB4B4-3440-43C1-BAD1-4F2433C17513@r-project.org>
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
> On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, gilescrane at verizon.net wrote:
> >
> > >However, direct reading might be a good option?
> >
> >See ?textConnection for how to do this.
> >
> >inp <- " x y z
> > 1 2 3
> > 4 5 6
> >"
> >read.table(textConnection(inp), header=TRUE)
> >
> >The most common case is wanting to paste in, and we have "clipboard" for
> >that (at least on Windows on X11: it would be a nice addition on Aqua).
> >
>
> On Mac OS X (Aqua or cmd line) you can use clipboard input like this:
> read.table(pipe("pbpaste"))
> It seems to be quite popular especially in conjunction with Excel...
Yes, I know (I even documented in ?connections). What would be nice is if
read.table("clipboard")
worked as it does on the other platforms.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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