lines = 'Country Consumption CHD_Mortality United_States 3900 256.9 Canada 3350 211.6 Australia 3220 238.1 New_Zea1and 3220 211.8 United_Kingdom 2790 194.1 Switzerland 2780 124.5 Ireland 2770 187.3 Iceland 2290 110.5 Finland 2160 233.1 West_Germany 1890 150.3 Netherlands 1810 124.7 Greece 1800 41.2 Austria 1770 182.1 Belgsum 1700 118.1 Mexico 1680 31.9 Italy 1510 114.3 Denmark 1500 144.9 France 1410 59.7 Sweden 1270 126.9 Spain 1200 43.9 Norway 1090 136.3' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE ) close(con)