lines=' A 14.6 13.8 B 17.3 15.4 C 10.9 11.3 D 12.8 11.6 E 16.6 16.4 F 12.2 12.6 G 11.2 11.8 H 15.4 15.0 I 14.8 14.4 J 16.2 15.0' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=FALSE ) close(con) colnames(DF) = c( 'Subject', 'Before', 'After' ) DF$Subject = NULL