R help - Jun 2000 - applying scan() and read.table() to strings

If I receive ASCII data through the socket-interface, how can I apply
scan() and read.table() to this character data?

scan() seems to read only from file or keyboard, read.table only from file.

Thanks for any help
Regards


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