https://github.com/mbojan/clipboard

R package for portable writing/reading to/from system clipboard
https://github.com/mbojan/clipboard

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R package for portable writing/reading to/from system clipboard

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mbojan/clipboard
• Owner: mbojan
• Created: 2012-05-04T23:37:28.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-06-25T17:11:32.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-23T22:14:01.181Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: R
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• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md

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# `clipboard`: R package making copy-pasting easy

[![R-CMD-check](https://github.com/mbojan/clipboard/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/mbojan/clipboard/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml)

[![cran version](http://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/clipboard)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=clipboard)

Package "clipboard" provide a portable way of interacting with system

clipboard. You can write content into a clipboard to be able to paste it into

some other application. For completeness, there are also functions for getting

content from the clipboard into R.  The primary motivation for writing this

package was to be able to quickly copy a content of a R object, typically a

matrix or a data frame, to be able to paste it into a table in an Office

program (e.g. MSWord, LibreOffice Writer, Excel, Calc, and alike).

## Dependencies

Functions in package "clipboard" try to use existing facilities, i.e.

connections, for writing into system clipboard as documented on

`help(connections)`. So far, functions for that purposes are available only on

some systems. For example, function `writeClipboard` is available only on

Windows. In package "clipboard" the type of the operating system is detected

and appropriate method for writing and reading into the clipboard is

automatically selected. In some cases the package has to rely on external

tools. They are mentioned below.

Linux: `xclip`

## Installation

Use package "devtools" and `install_github`:

```r

library(devtools)

install_github("mbojan/clipboard")

```

## Details

The main function is `cb` writes a textual representation of a single R object

into clipboard. The function is generic. Currently implemented methods cover

vectors, matrices, data frames, and tables. Users can write their own methods.

Additionally, functions `write_cb` and `read_cb` provide a low-level interface.

The package is developed on Github at https://github.com/mbojan/clipboard. Please

use Github facilities for submitting bugs (issues).