Copy and paste data into R

copy_paste.R

# Paste the data into a string:
data_string <- "     Filename         Fc 
Q5161811.04    20.36 
Q5161811.04    20.46 
Q5161811.04    24.17 
Q5161811.04    20.20 "

# Use a fileConnection to read the data into a data frame
the_data <- read.table(file = textConnection(object = data_string), 
                       header = TRUE, 
                       sep = "", 
                       stringsAsFactors = FALSE)