[Rd] Suggestion for read.table()

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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