My apologies Sarah, you are right, here:
sessionInfo() R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=Hebrew_Israel.1255 LC_CTYPE=Hebrew_Israel.1255 LC_MONETARY=Hebrew_Israel.1255 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=Hebrew_Israel.1255 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] plyr_1.8 jpeg_0.1-4 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_3.0.0 ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Pasting tabs into the console works for me on linux, which suggests > that you need to provide more information about your OS and all the > other usual things. > > Sarah > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Dear R-help Members, > > > > I have noticed that when pasting text with "tab" in it to the R console > it > > eliminates the tab. Whereas, when pasted into the R Editor, the tab is > > preserved. > > For example, pasting this: > > "1997 7680" > > In the R Console will result in: > > "19977680" > > > > Is there a way to preserve the tab? > > This would allow (for example) to use read.table with a table copied from > > website/libre-office/excel such as: > > > > a = read.table( text= > > " > > 1 2 > > 3 4 > > ") > > a > > > > I understand I can use readClipboard directly, but I wonder if there is a > > way to use it while the text is kept in the R Editor. > > > > > > With regards, > > Tal > > > -- > Sarah Goslee > http://www.functionaldiversity.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
