lines = 'County Index_of_Exposure Cancer_Mortality
Umatilla 2.49 147.1
Morrow 2.57 130.1
Gilliam 3.41 129.9
Sherman 1.25 113.5
Wasco 1.62 137.5
Hood_River 3.83 162.3
Portland 11.64 207.5
Cosumbia 6.41 177.9
Clatsop 8.34 210.3'
con = textConnection( lines )
DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE )
close(con)