[R] write to clipboard under Linux

[Johannes Hüsing]

Dear all,
I am trying to use the clipboard when writing a table.
Typing:

write.table(object, file="clipboard")

leads to the message:

Fehler in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) : 
	'mode' für die Zwischenablage muss unter Unix 'r' sein

My interpretation is that I am not allowed to write into the
clipboard from a program called from R. Is there a way to
change this behaviour?
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