lines = 'Year Years_After_1995 Gross_Federal_Debt 1996 1 5.181 1997 2 5.396 1998 3 5.478 1999 4 5.606 2000 5 5.629 2001 6 5.770 2002 7 6.198 2003 8 6.760 2004 9 7.355 2005 10 7.905 2006 11 8.451' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE ) close(con)