clipr (version 0.8.0)

write_clip: Write clipboard

Description

Write a character vector to the system clipboard

Usage

write_clip(
  content,
  object_type = c("auto", "character", "table"),
  breaks = NULL,
  eos = NULL,
  return_new = FALSE,
  allow_non_interactive = Sys.getenv("CLIPR_ALLOW", interactive()),
  ...
)

Arguments

content

An object to be written to the system clipboard.

object_type

write_clip() tries to be smart about writing objects in a useful manner. If passed a data.frame or matrix, it will format it using write.table() for pasting into an external spreadsheet program. It will otherwise coerce the object to a character vector. auto will check the object type, otherwise table or character can be explicitly specified.

breaks

The separator to be used between each element of the character vector being written. NULL defaults to writing system-specific line breaks between each element of a character vector, or each row of a table.

eos

The terminator to be written after each string, followed by an ASCII nul. Defaults to no terminator character, indicated by NULL.

return_new

If true, returns the rendered string; if false, returns the original object

allow_non_interactive

By default, clipr will throw an error if run in a non-interactive session. Set the environment variable CLIPR_ALLOW=TRUE in order to override this behavior.

...

Custom options to be passed to write.table() (if x is a table-like). Defaults to sane line-break and tab standards based on the operating system. By default, this will use col.names = TRUE if the table object has column names, and row.names = TRUE if the object has row names other than c("1", "2", "3"...). Override these defaults by passing arguments here.

Value

Invisibly returns the original object

Examples

# NOT RUN {
text <- "Write to clipboard"
write_clip(text)

multiline <- c("Write", "to", "clipboard")
write_clip(multiline)
# Write
# to
# clipboard

write_clip(multiline, breaks = ",")
# write,to,clipboard

tbl <- data.frame(a=c(1,2,3), b=c(4,5,6))
write_clip(tbl)
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }