lines = 'Month Day DOW Total_Errors Average_Errors Nov 21 Th 156 1.25 Nov 22 F 198 1.58 Nov 25 M 281 2.25 Nov 26 T 312 2.50 Nov 21 W 256 2.05 Nov 29 F 182 1.46 Dec 2 M 192 1.54 Dec 3 T 178 1.42 Dec 4 W 196 1.57 Dec 5 Th 175 1.40 Dec 6 F 189 1.51 Dec 9 M 135 1.08 Dec 10 T 159 1.27 Dec 11 W 148 1.18 Dec 12 Th 174 1.39 Dec 13 F 178 1.42 Dec 16 M 260 2.08 Dec 17 T 231 1.85' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE ) close(con)