Unexperienced users of StackOverflow tend to provide console output of the data they use:
id name
1 1 john
2 2 mary
Users with more experience should encourage them to provide a Reproducible Example, or to use dput
to provide data structure, but they don't always have time.
Do you know of a package/function allowing to copy the console output of a dataframe and to generate out of the clipboard the associated structure?
structure(list(id = c(1, 2), name = c("john", "mary")), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
-2L))
To make it short, I'm looking for and inverted dput
.
The reprex
package allows this kind of manipulation, for example clean-up console output, but I didn't find in it the function I'm looking for!
Using read.table
.
x <- "
id name
1 1 john
2 2 mary
"
fun <- function(x, header=TRUE) dput(read.table(header=header, text=x))
fun(x)
# structure(list(id = 1:2, name = c("john", "mary")), class = "data.frame", row.names = c("1",
# "2"))