Maybe some bits and pieces to pull in from the overflow package about reprex HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks @mrdwab! Yes maybe some features could be integrated. Long term I really think there should be a standalone clipboard mini-package that this package could them import. But today, in real life, I'd love to get clipboard functionality on other OSes within reprex.

I don't have physical access to a Windows computer and am being too lazy to set up something in the cloud and also fear it would not give me a faithful clipboard experience anyway. It would be better if someone who can test on a physical Windows box is checking things.

BTW overflow currently has no LICENSE. How could using readClip and writeClip work? Would you add a LICENSE and I grab some of the code? Or do you want to make a pull request?

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I've abstracted the OS X, Windows, and Linux versions of clipboard writing into just such a micro-package: clipr. It's super basic at the moment - it could probably use a clear_clip() command among other things, but maybe it'll be useful?

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Thanks @mdlincoln for starting clipr! This is a much needed thing. We should get other eyeballs on it. It would be truly awesome if it works as well as possible on lots of OSes, which I think requires actual humans on the OSes to be using it. I'm sure some automated testing is possible (and needed) but I bet this is an area where it's not a perfect solution.

I have concerns about LICENSEs. Neither overflow nor clipr has one, I think.

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1. Yes, there will be a bunch of annoying edge cases with system clipboards, so more eyes are a must! (I'm also just on OS X myself)
2. Re: LICENSE - both overflow and clipr specify GPL-3 in their respective DESCRIPTION files. I'm following Hadley's guidance here. Is a dedicated LICENSE file required when using GPL-3?

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Sorry about the ill-informed no license comment. Duh, I was just looking for a LICENSE file, not reading the DESCRIPTION. I use MIT which forces you to write a two line LICENSE file.

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