Support for character representations of input

[jonocarroll]

x_construct currently works with either the clipboard, or an existing data.frame- or tibble-classed object. Should support for the character-representation of this data be included? e.g.

x <- "	Location	Min	Max
Rain.	Adelaide	–	15
Rain.	Elizabeth	–	15
Rain.	Glenelg	–	15
Rain.	Noarlunga	–	14
Rain.	Mount Barker	–	13"

This works in the pathway of

clipr::write_clip(content = x)
tribble_paste()

and that could be wrapped if the input_table is of class "character", or some more effort could go towards parsing the text internally and avoiding the clipboard altogether. As a bonus, this would help with unit testing and places where the clipboard is unavailable.

I can't find where it is, but I thought there was an RStudio Server workaround where the text was entered locally - it could help with that also.

[shahreyar-abeer]

Would love to see it sorted.

[MilesMcBain]

What sort of workflow does this facilitate?

Is this helpful?

library(readr)
library(datapasta)
readr::read_tsv("	Location	Min	Max
Rain.	Adelaide	–	15
Rain.	Elizabeth	–	15
Rain.	Glenelg	–	15
Rain.	Noarlunga	–	14
Rain.	Mount Barker	–	13") %>%
dpasta()
tibble::tribble(
        ~X1,      ~Location, ~Min, ~Max,
    "Rain.",     "Adelaide",  "–",   15,
    "Rain.",    "Elizabeth",  "–",   15,
    "Rain.",      "Glenelg",  "–",   15,
    "Rain.",    "Noarlunga",  "–",   14,
    "Rain.", "Mount Barker",  "–",   13
    )