In xiaoa6435/RmdImgPaste: Just Use 'cmd + v' to Paste Image to a Rmd File or Blogdown Post

This package depends on rstudioapi, I don't think it can work without Rstudio. If you don't use Rstudio, grab_clipboard may be help for you: it grab image in clipboard and save to a local path.

Usage

In Rstudio, Tools -> Modify Keyboard Shortcuts -> RmdImgPaste，Customize a shortcut (for example, cmd + v, if not conflict), then you can just use 'cmd + v' paste image into a blogdown post or a Rmd file.

Troubleshooting

how to read image from clipboard?

in macos, exec script like this:

osascript -e '
  set theFile to (open for access POSIX file "test.png" with write permission)
  try
    write (the clipboard as «class PNGf») to theFile
  end try
  close access theFile'

in window (for 'windows7', 'powershell' need updated to 5.1):

powershell -sta '
  Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms;,
  if ($([System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard]::ContainsImage())) {
    [System.Drawing.Bitmap][System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard]::GetDataObject(
      ).getimage().Save("test.png", [System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat]::Png)
  }'

in linux (xlip is needed):

xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -o > "test.png"

if this Addin not work, you can test if this scipt can can generate test.png file when you have a image on clipboard

where is paste image?

for a general Rmd files, all paste image in curr_path/.assets/, named like rmd-img-paste-%Y%m%d%H%M%s.png

for a blogdown post(.Rproj have somethin like BuildType: Website and in content/post), all paste image in static/post/postname_files/, and insert code like ![](/post/postname_files/rmd-img-paste-%Y%m%d%H%M%s.png)

Acknowledgements

this code is based on https://github.com/Timag/imageclipr and make some changes:

• remove python dependency
• remove shiny, only shortcuts
• add support for blogdown post

xiaoa6435/RmdImgPaste documentation built on July 3, 2020, 9:49 p.m.