Just read into a data.frame with read.table and then subset to use the first column.
e.g., your_desired_data <- data.frame(read.table("path_to_file", sep = " ", fill = T)) your_desired_data <- your_desired_data[,1] -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/scanning-data-into-r-tp4513182p4513364.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.