lines = 'Observation Chirps_Per_Second Temperature 1 20.0 88.6 2 16.0 71.6 3 19.8 93.3 4 18.4 84.3 5 17.1 80.6 6 15.5 75.2 7 14.7 69.7 8 17.1 82.0 9 15.4 69.4 10 16.2 83.3 11 15.0 79.6 12 17.2 82.6 13 16.0 80.6 14 17.0 83.5 15 14.4 76.3' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE ) close(con) DF$Observation = NULL