I forgot to mention that I am using Windows XP. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Pasting data into scan() Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 11:55:03 +1200 From: Murray Jorgensen <maj at stats.waikato.ac.nz> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch The file TENSILE.DAT from the Hand et al "Handbook of Small Data Sets" looks like this: [...] -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk Home +64 7 825 0441 Mobile 021 1395 862