fread from "clipboard" or "clipboard-128" (on Windows) fails

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Issue type
Bug
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r
Domain
data

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Start by reproducing fread("clipboard-128") on Windows and compare it with the working read.delim("clipboard-128") example. The issue is resolved when fread can import clipboard data without the reported command or temporary-file error.

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Description

beginner-task feature request fread

Just noticed (say you "copy" delimited data from a text editor or from MSExcel and want to "paste" as data.table into an R workspace).


# this works
df <- read.delim("clipboard-128")

# this fails
dt <- fread("clipboard-128")
# Error in fread("clipboard-128") : 
#   Unable to open file after 5 attempts (error 3): C:\Users\mbacou\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpUDARkO\file7643a2c3ff3
# In addition: Warning messages:
#1: running command 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c (clipboard-128) > C:\Users\mbacou\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpUDARkO\file7643a2c3ff3' had status 1 
#2: In shell(paste("(", input, ") > ", tt, sep = "")) :
#   '(clipboard-128) > C:\Users\mbacou\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpUDARkO\file7643a2c3ff3' execution # failed with error code 1
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