[R] cygwin clipboard

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 22/05/2019 8:57 p.m., Abby Spurdle wrote:
>  > I'd like to be able to access the windows clipboard from R under Cygwin.
>  > Is this supported in any way?  Thanks
> 
> Hi Ed
> 
> You can access the Windows clipboard under Cygwin.
> I ran R within Cygwin.
> I was able to use read.table (file="clipboard") for both plain text and 
> Excel tables.
> 
>  > #table copied from excel
>  > tbl = read.table (file="clipboard", TRUE)
>  > tbl
>    A B  C  D
> 1 1 5  9 13
> 2 2 6 10 14
> 3 3 7 11 15
> 4 4 8 12 16
> 
> Note that when copying plain text you may need to include a final 
> newline character.
> 
> The X11() message is suspicious.
> I'm wondering what type of object you're trying to copy...?

I think Ed was running the Cygwin build of R.  Cygwin can run the 
Windows build of R, and it sounds as though that's what you did (and 
what Ed should do.)

Duncan Murdoch