lines = 'Sample Number 1 7.0680 2 4.0540 3 6.6165 4 1.2166 5 4.6158 6 7.7540 7 7.7300 8 6.5109 9 3.8933 10 2.7533 11 7.6979 12 4.4338 13 5.6538 14 8.0791 15 4.7458 16 3.5044 17 1.3071 18 5.7893 19 4.5241 20 5.3291 21 5.9828 22 1.4614 23 9.2655 24 4.9281 25 10.5561 26 6.1738 27 5.4895 28 3.6629 29 3.7223 30 3.5211 31 5.2625 32 5.9047 33 4.6342 34 5.3089 35 5.4942 36 6.6914 37 1.4380 38 8.2604 39 5.0209 40 0.5544' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE ) close(con)