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Asked: 2026-06-14T13:30:54+00:00

I have my data open in another application (e.g. a spreadsheet, like Excel, or

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I have my data open in another application (e.g. a spreadsheet, like Excel, or a text editor). If I copy that data to my operating system clipboard, how can I read it into R as a data.frame?

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    Assuming you have data in the Windows clipboard (for example, copied data from Excel), to put that data into a variable named copdat in R use:

    copdat <- read.delim("clipboard")

    If you want to copy data from an R variable named rdat into the Windows clipboard (for example, to copy into Excel) use:

    write.table(rdat, "clipboard", sep="\t", row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE)
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