lines = 'Arena Number_of_Suites Projected_Revenue Palace 180 11.0 Orlando_Arena 26 1.4 Bradley_Center 68 3.0 America_West 88 6.0 Charlotte_Coliseum 12 0.9 Target_Center 67 4.0 Salt_Lake_City_Arena 56 3.5 Miami_Arena 18 1.4 ARCO_Arena 30 2.7' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE ) close(con)