clipboard_utilities: Read and write to the system clipboard
In t-gummer/RADins: Useful RStudio Add-ins for Pasting File Paths and More

Utility functions to read and write to the system clipboard with checks.

These functions are used in the source code for add-ins in the RADins package.

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get_clipboard()

set_clipboard(text)

text

A character vector, each element of which is a line of text to be written to the clipboard.

These functions are essentially the clipr functions, read_clip and write_clip respectively with some additional checks

These checks include:

If the clipr package is incompatible with the system, it will provide an informative dialogue box.
If the R session is not interactive, these functions will not execute the clipr functions as they are not meant to be used in non-interactive sessions.

The value of set_clipboard() is a character vector, each element of which is a line of text in the system clipboard.

The value of set_clipboard() is always NULL as it is used for its “side-effect” if writing to the clipboard and not for its value.

t-gummer/RADins documentation built on Sept. 14, 2020, 7:58 p.m.