On 03 Sep 2014, at 14:29, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > This works, presumably because text connections are not non-blocking: > >> readLines(textConnection(system("pbpaste",intern=TRUE))) > [1] "line 1" "line 2" "line 3”
or the following should also work on each OSX readLines(pipe("pbpaste|awk 1”)) Cheers, Hans ****************************************************** Hans-Joerg Bibiko Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Linguistics Deutscher Platz 6 phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 341 D-04103 Leipzig fax: +49 (0) 341 3550 333 Germany e-mail: bibiko [at] eva.mpg.de _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac