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\name{clipboard}
\alias{clipboard}
\alias{clipboard_import}
\alias{clipboard_export}
\title{Import/export from clipboard}
\usage{
clipboard_import(sep = "\\t", header = TRUE, dec = ".", na = c("", "NA",
  "NULL"), startrow = 1, as_vector = TRUE)

clipboard_export(x, sep = "\\t", dec = ".", na = "", header = TRUE,
  info = TRUE)
}
\arguments{
\item{sep}{the field separator character.  Values on each line of the
    file are separated by this character.  If \code{sep = ""} (the
    default for \code{read.table}) the separator is \sQuote{white space},
    that is one or more spaces, tabs, newlines or carriage returns.}

\item{header}{a logical value indicating whether the file contains the
    names of the variables as its first line.  If missing, the value is
    determined from the file format: \code{header} is set to \code{TRUE}
    if and only if the first row contains one fewer field than the
    number of columns.}

\item{dec}{the character used in the file for decimal points.}

\item{na}{the string to use for missing values in the data.}

\item{startrow}{\emph{n}th row to start importing from. When \code{header = TRUE}, the import will start on row \code{startrow} \emph{below} the header.}

\item{as_vector}{a logical value indicating whether data consisting of only one column should be imported as vector using \code{\link[dplyr]{pull}}. This will strip off the header.}

\item{x}{the object to be written, preferably a matrix or data frame.
    If not, it is attempted to coerce \code{x} to a data frame.}

\item{info}{print info about copying}
}
\value{
data.frame
}
\description{
These are helper functions around \code{\link{read.table}} and \code{\link{write.table}} to import from and export to clipboard with support for Windows, Linux and macOS. The data will be read and written as tab-separated by default, which makes it possible to copy and paste from other software like Excel and SPSS without further transformation. See Details for an example.
}
\details{
For \code{clipboard_export()}, the reserved clipboard size for exporting will be set to 125\% of the object size of \code{x}. This way, it is possible to export data with thousands of rows as the only limit will be your systems RAM.

  Example for copying from Excel:
  \if{html}{
    \out{<div style="text-align: left">}\figure{Excel_copy.png}\out{</div>}
  }
  \if{latex}{
    \out{\begin{left}}\figure{Excel_copy.png}\out{\end{left}}
  }
  \cr
  And pasting in R: \cr \cr
  \code{> data <- clipboard_import()} \cr
  \code{> data} \cr
  \if{html}{
    \out{<div style="text-align: left">}\figure{Excel_paste.png}\out{</div>}
  }
  \if{latex}{
    \out{\begin{left}}\figure{Excel_paste.png}\out{\end{left}}
  }
}
\keyword{clipboard}
\keyword{clipboard_export}
\keyword{clipboard_import}
\keyword{export}
\keyword{import}