Copy Data Frame to Clipboard in R (Example)

On this page, I’ll demonstrate how to copy a data frame to the clipboard in the R programming language.

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So now the part you have been waiting for – the example:

Creation of Example Data

To begin with, we’ll need to construct some data that we can use in the following example syntax.

data <- data.frame(x1 = 16:11,    # Create example data
                   x2 = "yyy",
                   x3 = LETTERS[10:15])
data                              # Print example data

Table 1 shows that our example data contains six data points and three variables. The variable x1 is an integer and the variables x2 and x3 are characters.

Example: Copy Data Frame to Clipboard Using write_clip() Function

This example illustrates how to copy a data frame to the clipboard in the R programming language.

For this task, we can apply the write_clip function as shown below:

clipr::write_clip(data)           # Apply write_clip

After executing the previous R code, our data set is saved in the clipboard.

If we now press Ctrl + v, the following output is returned:

# x1	x2	x3
# 16	yyy	J
# 15	yyy	K
# 14	yyy	L
# 13	yyy	M
# 12	yyy	N
# 11	yyy	O

Looks good!

We may use this code to copy and paste our data to external files such as TXT, Excel, and CSV files.

Video & Further Resources

I have recently published a video on my YouTube channel, which shows the R programming codes of this article. You can find the video instruction below.

In addition, you might read some other R tutorials on this website:

• Copy & Paste Data from Clipboard into R
• View() Function in R
• All R Programming Tutorials

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