lines = '26.18 24.22 24.22 25.30 26.48 24.49 25.18 23.97 25.68 24.54 25.83 26.01 25.14 25.05 25.50 25.44 26.24 25.84 24.49 25.46 26.09 25.01 25.01 25.21 25.12 24.71 26.04 25.67 25.27 25.23' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=FALSE ) close(con) data = c( DF$V1, DF$V2, DF$V3 )