I think the "clipboard" filename is handled in the Windows build of R. I don't use the cygwin build of R, so I can't test, but Googling "cygwin clipboard" finds references to "/dev/clipboard" implemented by cygwin independent from R.
I can't let the opportunity pass to strongly recommend avoiding work processes that route data through the clipboard... it is an anti-pattern for reproducibility... and reproducibility leads to incremental process improvement and more defensible results. On May 21, 2019 7:55:21 AM PDT, Ed Siefker <ebs15...@gmail.com> wrote: >I'd like to be able to access the windows clipboard from R under >Cygwin. >But... > >> read.table(file="clipboard") >Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection >In addition: Warning message: >In file(file, "rt") : unable to contact X11 display >> > >Is this supported in any way? Thanks >-Ed > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
