[R] SAS "datalines" or "cards" statement equivalent in R?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>  This just seems like horrendously bad practice, which is one reason
> it's kludgy in R. If it was good practice, someone would surely have
> written a way to do it neatly.
>
>  Keep your data in data files, and your functions in .R function
> files. You'll thank me later.

It can be useful from a deployment point of view if you have to send
it around.  Posting questions on the r-help list is a good example.