R help - Aug 2007 - Reading data from a string

Hi,

I'am looking for ways in R to read in data from a character string in my 
wiki. Currently I see two possibilities:

1.) write my own routine
2.) using read.table(textConnection(mydata))

Of course, I want to avoid writing my own routine and textConnection is 
a forbidden command by the R-PHP people (and I think they had good 
reasons for this). Does anybody know other possibilities?

Thanks in advance

  Sigbert Klinke