Warning when trying to write non-character objects?

[mdlincoln]

And should we try to handle conversion? My instinct is no - deciding how to format the printing of an object should be left to the user, this package should just handle moving that text to the clipboard.

[lmmx]

It could warn "not a character vector, coercing to one"... but I think a clipboard handler should be quiet.

Here for example users are forced to write 'glue code', writeClipboard( as.character(x) ) when they clearly just mean writeClipboard(x). Warning might be annoying.

I think it should assume* what's passed in is either already a 1-tuple character vector, or ready to be as.character'd and paste0(collapse = sep)'d into that format [as discussed]

It would always be converted to a string by writeChar upon writing to the connection, so doing that explicitly is fine.

I made a new file, flat_str.R, defining a helper called by each of the OS-specific write_clip functions with the appropriate sep parameter

flat_str <- function(content, sep) {
  content <- as.character(content)
  if (length(content) > 1) {
    content <- paste0(content, collapse = sep)
  }
  return(content)
}

I'll push some code for you to look at in a minute anyhoo :-)

[mdlincoln]

It would always be converted to a string by writeChar upon writing to the connection, so doing that explicitly is fine.

This is probably the best justification for not warning anyone 👍

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