lines = 'Percent_Time With_Domes 100.0 1 58.6 1 93.5 1 83.6 1 84.1 1 79.1 0 83.6 0 76.4 0 84.2 0 96.5 0 88.8 0 85.3 0' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE ) close(con)