Question

Let’s say I want to reproduce an example posted on StackOverflow. Some have suggested posters use dput() to help streamline this process or one of the datasets available in the base package.

In this case, however, suppose I have only been given the output of the dataframe:

> site.data
    site year     peak
1  ALBEN    5 101529.6
2  ALBEN   10 117483.4
3  ALBEN   20 132960.9
8  ALDER    5   6561.3
9  ALDER   10   7897.1
10 ALDER   20   9208.1
15 AMERI    5  43656.5
16 AMERI   10  51475.3
17 AMERI   20  58854.4

Do I have other options besides saving this as a text file and using read.table()?

Answer 1

Here’s one handy option:

site.data <- read.table(textConnection(
"        site year     peak
1  ALBEN    5 101529.6
2  ALBEN   10 117483.4
3  ALBEN   20 132960.9
8  ALDER    5   6561.3
9  ALDER   10   7897.1
10 ALDER   20   9208.1
15 AMERI    5  43656.5
16 AMERI   10  51475.3
17 AMERI   20  58854.4"))