How to copy from R console without using mouse

[quentintdv]

So, I'm a keyboard/shortcut fanatic and want to copy text from the console without to fall back on to mouse. With Ctrl+2 I can obviously put the focus on the console but only scroll through the executed code via arrow up and down keys. Is it possible to somehow instead put the focus on the output? Like let's say I execute typeof(variable)and R Studio returns [1] "double" - how do I copy that?

[GreyMerchant]

Hi there,

There might be a way to do that with some sort of custom add on but you can also just formally assign that output to an object and use it as you want to within the session/script.

variable <- 3

typeof(variable)
#> [1] "double"

what_type <- typeof(variable)

what_type
#> [1] "double"

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[quentintdv]

Oh well, that's the obvious solution that I didn't think of! Thanks for that. However, it's not exactly what I was looking for: It requires another line of code. I just want to copy the output and specifically not assign anything on top, which makes the code larger and more difficult to read.

[GreyMerchant]

Speaking of that addon. You will want to look at CLIPR. See here: r - Copy text from RStudio console as "plain text" - Stack Overflow

[quentintdv]

It doesn't work for me at this point and instead returns the error:

Error in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) :
'mode' for the clipboard must be 'r' on Unix

Sounds like something, that has to be solved at the backend as I'm working with the server version of R Studio.

[GreyMerchant]

Ahh that might make it more difficult then yes. Also seems like the unix version needs to be setup slightly different. I know too little of that setup to be able to advise you.