hello, assume you have a txt-file (sep="\t" or "") looking as follows that you want to read into a variable: 1 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 3 1 5 6 7 8 the result should look like this (e.g., in a data.frame): 1 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 3 1 5 6 7 8 is there any way to do so? thanks in advance, jan