On 9/22/05, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/22/2005 1:12 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > There is an open source clipboard extender CLCL that handles all > > clipboard formats. I think this code could be leveraged to simplify > > it substantially. Run CLCL and copy something from IE or Excel, > > say, so that you have a complex object in the clipboard. > > Now expand Clipboard in the left pane and the various components > > in the clipboard are shown in the tree as children. You can right click > > and save any of them. > > > > If this code could be followed it might be simple to just have a new > > argument to clipboard() which specified which component to return > > or one could optionally return a list of all of them. > > We'd need to write clipboard() first. This might be a good idea, but > it's not at the top of my priority list.
Sorry, its readClipboard() rather than clipboard(). See ?readClipboard > > I think a better thing for R to do is to make sure it's easy for package > writers to write connections. Then a package writer could write > clipboard(), and it would fit into the rest of the R machinery. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > On 9/22/05, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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 > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
