lines = 'Subject Ratio RH 0.61 RB 0.70 MB 0.63 DM 0.76 WB 0.67 RB 0.72 BF 0.64 JT 0.82 PS 0.88 RB 0.82 WS 0.78 RV 0.84 EN 0.83 WD 0.82 FR 0.74 PD 0.85 EB 0.73 PC 0.85 RW 0.87' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE ) close(con)