Month: February 2018

• Solution for error message in R for pasting Excel data from clipboard (pipe(‘pbpaste’) )

  One of the quickest ways in R to get data into it is to copy to the clipboard then paste it into a variable. This can be done in Windows by read.table(“clipboard”, header=T) The exact same function can be done on a MAC computer with read.table(pipe(“pbpaste”), header=T) However, in the MAC a red warning message…

  Warren Tang

  14 February 2018

• Clipboard hack for R in MAC

  When I first started using the statistical software R for statistics I had started on a Windows computer. For here the copying and pasting function is read.table(“clipboard”, header=T) The exact same function on a MAC computer is read.table(pipe(“pbpaste”), header=T) Simple as that. I’d someone had told me this much earlier.

  Warren Tang

  13 February 2018