R convert large character string to dataframe

Question

I am having trouble converting a large text string to a dataframe. I\'ve been unable to figure this simple task out yet. Hoping for your help.

x <- \"1 ap         


        

Answer 1

  read.table(text=x,col.names=c('ID','Name'))
  #     ID      Name
    1    1     apple
    2  200 blueberry
    3 3000      pear
    4 4400 raspberry