Copy an R data.frame to an Excel spreadsheet

Question

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As part of my work, I have to copy output from the R Studio Console to an excel worksheet in order to make e

Answer 1

I usually source the following function:

cb <- function(df, sep="\t", dec=",", max.size=(200*1000)){
    # Copy a data.frame to clipboard
    write.table(df, paste0("clipboard-", formatC(max.size, format="f", digits=0)), sep=sep, row.names=FALSE, dec=dec)
  }

A few notes:

• Max.size allows you to specify how big the clipboard can become (in kilobytes) before it cancels, it's set to ~200MB right now.
• It works perfectly for copying an R dataframe from an R studio session to Excel (with my EU locale). You might have to adjust the separator / decimal symbols to make it work with US versions.

How to use:

df <- mtcars
cb(df)
# Paste in excel as 'values'