writeClipboard for matrices or data frames?

Question

writeClipboard works for raw or character vectors. Is there anything that can let me place matrices/data.frames into the clipboard?

Answer 1

I think write.table with the file = "clipboard" argument will work. Here's an example:

write.table(mtcars, "clipboard", sep="\t", row.names=FALSE)

Answer 2

The above is mostly a wrong answer if your table is a little bigger.

Warning message:
In .External2(C_writetable, x, file, nrow(x), p, rnames, sep, eol,  :
  clipboard buffer is full and output lost

The hack fix is this:

writeClipboard(knitr::kable(d))

Answer 3

A nice OS independent solution is:

library(clipr)
clipr::write_clip(mtcars)

But may suffer from size limitations as well.