Rstudio: Cmd + C/V not working in editor

Question

I have used pipe to copy and paste data between Rstudio (v0.99.467) and Excel on my Mac OSX 10.9.5.

pipe(\"pbcopy\", \"w\")
pipe(\"pbpaste\")
         


        

Answer 1

On OSX Mojave using R 3.5.1, you can use the following block to capture the clipboard:

clipboard <- system("pbpaste", intern = T)

I can also confirm that the following block is working:

clipboard <- scan(pipe("pbpaste", "r"), what = character())

However, connections are sometimes tricky to work with. For example:

clipboard <- readLines(pipe("pbpaste", "r"))

Returns an empty character vector, likely because there's no newline terminator in the clipboard!