read_clipboard: Read text from clipboard.

In GegznaV/RcmdrPlugin.BioStat: R Commander Plug-in for Basic Data Management and Analysis Tasks

Read text from clipboard.

Description

Read text from clipboard.

Usage

read_clipboard(which = "tcltk")

read_clipboard_clipr()

read_clipboard_tcltk()

Arguments

which

(string) either "tcltk" or "clipr".

Details

• read_clipboard_clipr() uses clipr implementation. Encoding issues may occur on Windows.

• read_clipboard_tcltk() uses Tcl/Tk implementation of clipboard. Tcl/Tk clipboard gets empty, if is window gets closed.

The functions in all cases must return a single string. Possible different conditions on clipboard:

• one line of text;

• several lines of text;

• non-text object.

Value

• read_clipboard() and read_clipboard_tcltk() return a string from clipboard. If the clipboard contains non-sting object, empty sting ("") is returned.

Examples

read_clipboard()

## Not run: \donttest{
testthat::expect_true(
  all.equal(read_clipboard(), read_clipboard_tcltk())
)
testthat::expect_true(
  all.equal(read_clipboard_clipr(), read_clipboard_tcltk())
)
}
## End(Not run)

GegznaV/RcmdrPlugin.BioStat documentation built on May 8, 2023, 7:41 a.m.