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stevec
stevec

Reputation: 52198

Shortcut to paste clipboard contents into RStudio automatically surrounded by quotes?

Sometimes we copy/paste a string into RStudio, in which case we need to manually surround the text with quotes.

Is there a native way to paste with automatic quoting?

Example

If the clipboard contained here is my text, such a shortcut would result in "here is my text" being pasted in the R console/script pane.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 446

Answers (2)

Allan Cameron
Allan Cameron

Reputation: 173793

If you want a way to make the text contents of your Clipboard reusable in a script you can do

dput(readClipboard())

This has the benefit of automatically making multi-line text into a concatenated character vector. For example if I copy:

Alas, poor Yorick! 
I knew him, Horatio; 
a fellow of infinite jest, 
of most excellent fancy;

Then I can do

dput(readClipboard())

# c("Alas, poor Yorick! ", "I knew him, Horatio; ", "a fellow of infinite jest, ", 
# "of most excellent fancy; ")

Upvotes: 0

G. Grothendieck
G. Grothendieck

Reputation: 269371

This can be done in R:

x <- readClipboard()
x
## [1] "Here is my text"

This also works:

x <- readLines(stdin())
...paste clipboard into R & press ctrl-z (windows) or ctrl-d (unix)...
x
## [1] "Here is my text"

Upvotes: 2

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