title: Import data in separate columns in R
body: <p>I have a text file to import the data from, and I want to read it in 3 columns, but the data only imports one. The file is pretty big, and there are no <code>.</code> or <code>,</code> involved. Some of the data are made from more than one word in succession, so I can't separate them by <code>" "</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I have been using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>a &lt;- read.table("filename.txt", sep = "\t")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The data comes back naturally in rows, but with only one column.
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