Easy cut & paste from Excel to R?

Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

Well, yes, some arguments twisting might be required as for my german
locales / german version of Excel the following works even for empty
cells and real valued entries:

   read.table(file("clipboard"), sep="\t", dec=",")

    V1  V2  V3
1 1.2  NA 2.3
2 3.4 4.5 5.6

...which is of course the same as 

     read.delim2(file("clipboard"), header=FALSE)

except for possible variations in the fill and quote settings. (What
happens if you have empty cells in the last columns, or cells with
the text "Don't do this"?)

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