Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411190812050.24346@gannet.stats>
Date: 2004-11-19T08:17:42Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Clipboard under Linux/Unix
In-Reply-To: <200411190752.iAJ7qCnD018061@outmx008.isp.belgacom.be>
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
> This may be a trivial question, but I don't find the answer in R online
> help. Under Windows, I can copy/paste to the clipboard using
> readClipboard()/writeClipboard(), or something like cat(..., file =
> "clipboard"). Are there equivalent function for other platforms?
No. There is not necessarily even the equivalent of a clipboard; I am
typing this in a terminal session on a remote computer that has no access
to the clipboard on my local windowing system (nor even to my local
display: for performance reasons the X11 connection is not forwarded,
and even if it were, I do the same thing from my Windows laptop and
there Exceed and Windows have separate clipboards in different formats).
Please do use R-devel and not R-help for programming questions: see the
posting guide.
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