Import ASCII file into R

Question

I have several ASCII files I Need to Import into R with return data for different asset classes. The structure of the ASCII files is as follows (with 2 sample data)

How

Answer 1

You can easily read this data using read.csv. Since your column names are not comma separated then you will need to use the header=FALSE argument and then add the names once the data is in R or oyu can manually edit the data before reading it by omitting the <> characters and adding a comma between each column name.