lines = 'Foraging_Size Colony_Size 45 280 74 222 118 288 70 601 220 1205 823 2769 647 2828 446 3229 765 3762 338 7551 611 8834 4119 12584 850 12605 11600 34661 64512 139043' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE ) close(con)