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Joachim Schork
Joachim Schork

Reputation: 2147

Remove Last Newline from Output of writeClipboard Function in R

I want to copy a character string output from R to the clipboard. For this, I can use the writeClipboard function as shown below:

writeClipboard("my_text")

For example, I can now paste this output to a TXT file using Strg + v. The output may look as shown in the following screenshot:

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As indicated by the red arrow, the output contains a newline at the end even though I have not specified this newline in my character string.

How can I create an output that does not contain this last newline at the end of my character string?

The final output should look like this:

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Upvotes: 2

Views: 240

Answers (1)

mhovd
mhovd

Reputation: 4067

From the documentation for writeClipboard: ... will write a character vector as text or Unicode text with standard CR-LF line terminators.

Instead, you can use writeLines and setup a connection to "clipboard" like this

mytext = "Abcdefg"
writeLines(text = mytext, con = "clipboard", sep = "")

The connection to "clipboard" can also be utilized by other functions, such as write.table or cat, e.g. cat(mytext, file = "clipboard"). Here is the documentation on the possible connections you can use.

Upvotes: 3

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