From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Thu Sep 22 18:42:18 2005
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:42:18 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Wishlist - access non-text from clipboard in Windows
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On 9/22/2005 11:13 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Just wanted to post this wishlist item.
> 
> Currently one can read text from the Windows clipboard but the Windows
> clipboard can hold all sorts of objects, not just text, and it can
> hold them simultaneously.  For example, if one selects some cells in
> Excel and then copies them to the clipboard, the clipboard will have
> all the cell boundary information but R can only read the text and
> will have to figure it out if it can.
> 
> It would be nice if the user could use R to access all the information on
> the clipboard, not just the text.

This looks like something someone should write a package to do.  It 
needs lots of support (e.g. what do all the possible clipboard format 
constants mean, what binary format corresponds to each, etc.), but it 
would only be useful on the Windows platform.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] Wishlist - access non-text from clipboard in Windows
Duncan Murdoch