title: Reading a space delimited text file where first column also has spaces
body: <p>I'm trying to read a text file into <strong>R</strong> that looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Ant farm 45 67 89
  Cookie 5 43 21
  Mouse hole 5 87 32
  Ferret 3 56 87
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Etc.</p>
  
  <p>My problem is that the file is space delimited and the first variable has some entries that include a space so reading into <strong>R</strong> creates an error due to different rows having more columns. Does anyone know a way to read this in? </p>