lines = 'City Peak_Wind_Gust Number_of_Damaged_Homes
A 0.98 25.000
B 0.74 0.950
C 1.12 200.000
D 1.34 150.000
E 0.87 0.940
F 0.65 0.090
G 1.39 260.000'
con = textConnection( lines )
DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE )
close(con)