lines = 'University Money_Spent_on_Tutoring Graduation_Rate_2007 Minnesota 1.61 72 Kansas 1.61 70 Florida 1.67 87 LSU 1.74 69 Georgia 1.77 70 Tennessee 1.83 78 Kentucky 1.86 73 Ohio_St 1.89 78 Texas 1.90 72 Oklahoma 2.45 69' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE ) close(con)