write_clip() doesn't copy the entire data for large dataset.

[olivroy]

Hello,

I was wondering if it would be possible to add a warning or an error, when write_clip() does not copy the full data it had.

I am on Windows, and with > 2,000 rows, and > 7 columns, I am having this issue

Thanks.

[mdlincoln]

Thanks for the report @olivroy and sorry that you're having problems.

Question: do you know what the size is of the text that DOES get copied successfully to your clipboard? (if you paste it into a text file and save it, how big is that file) And what the size is of the full data frame if you write it to CSV? I'm curious how much Windows is truncating.

on Windows, clipr relies on the built-in R function utils::writeClipboard and, from what I remember, it does not offer any insight into whether Windows is truncating contents, which may be different for different users' systems. Thus, I'm not sure that we can have clipr issue a warning. But if there is a rough threshhold that we can use to issue a preemptive warning, I'd add it.