From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Thu Mar 23 13:59:19 2000
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 23 Mar 2000 14:59:19 +0100
Subject: [Rd] clipboard
In-Reply-To: Friedrich Leisch's message of "Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:44:36 +0100 (CET)"
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Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> if we do something like that for windows (which might be useful) we
> should do the same for X, i.e., use the X clipboard in the same way.
> 
> Not that I know how to access it but it shouldn't be too hard to find
> out. Both would probably come down to having something like
> 
> 	read.table(text=foo, ...)
> 
> along with
> 
> 	foo <- getClipboard(...)
> 
> reading a text string from the X or Windows clipboard (assuming that
> what you get from the windows clipboard is a string).

Wouldn't that require some sort of coordination with a similar feature
in e.g. gnumeric? If all we can do with the clipboard is to stick its
content into a text file, we might as well do so directly...

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[Rd] clipboard
Peter Dalgaard BSA