lines = 'Month Boardings July 41388 Aug 44880 Sept 33556 Oct 34805 Nov 33025 Dec 34873 Jan 31330 Feb 30954 March 32402 April 38020 May 42828 June 41204 July 44148 Aug 42038 Sept 35157 Oct 39568 Nov 34185 Dec 37604 Jan 28231 Feb 29109 March 38080 April 34184 May 39842 June 46727' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE ) close(con)