lines = '10.7 9.6 10.7 10.4 10.4 9.7 10.9 10.3 10.5 9.2 10.3 9.3 9.6 9.9 11.1 9.5 11.2 9.0 10.4 10.9' com = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=FALSE ) close(con) colnames(DF) = c('Non_Confined', 'Confined')