Write files to clipboard?

[rorynolan]

I'd like to be able to write files to clipboard, like what happens if you right click on a file and click copy. Perhaps there could be a function clipr::write_clip_file() or something like that where you pass the path to the file as an argument?
Loving the package, thanks for your great work.
Rory

[mdlincoln]

Thanks very much for the suggestion. I'm glad to hear you are finding the package useful.

I don't think a function to do this fits in the scope of clipr. This package is designed to get objects out of R onto the clipboard, and clipboard contents out of the clipboard and into R objects.

Clipr would need to make a lot of assumptions about the contents of an arbitrary file on your computer to decide how to read it into an R object before writing it back out again. I think you are going to be better served by reading the file in using a function that you know will fit your specific case (readLines, read.csv, hey, maybe it's a JPEG file and you want to read it into a numeric matrix with jpeg::readJPEG!) and then write it out with clipr