[R] Reading in a transcript-like file

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http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n2272669/FT20100626_%2420_%2B_%242_Sit_%26_Go_-_%28169112900%29_-_Summary.txt
FT20100626_%2420_%2B_%242_Sit_%26_Go_-_%28169112900%29_-_Summary.txt 

I have a lot of experience with Stata, but I'm new to R.  I'm trying to read
the attached file into R on my mac.  My goal is to have it as a list, with
each element a string - from then I can parse out the data I need and add it
as an observation in a dataframe.  

I've tried scan, readlines, etc. but I'm stumped.  I've been adding
encoding="UTF-16", but that doesn't seem to help much.
The closest I've come is:

test<-scan(file="FT20100626 $20 + $2 Sit & Go - (169112900) - Summary.txt",
what=list(""), flush=FALSE, skip=0, encoding="UTF-16", quote="\n")

which gives me a list wherein each element is first letter of the row. 

> test
[[1]]
 [1] "\xff\xfeF" "T"         "P"         "T"         "S"         "$"        
"+"         "$"         "S"       
[10] "&"         "G"         "("         "H"         "N"         "L"        
"B"         "u"         "$"       
[19] "+"         "$"         "B"         "u"         "C"         "1"        
"6"         "E"         "T"       
[28] "o"         "P"         "P"         "$"         "T"         "o"        
"s"         "2"         "0"       
[37] "E"         "T"         "o"         "f"         "2"         "1"        
"E"         "\n"        "1"       
[46] "B"         "$"         "2"         ":"         "J"         "$"        
"3"         ":"         "b"       
[55] "4"         ":"         "s"         "c"         "2"         "5"        
":"         "R"         "6"       
[64] ":"         "S"         "B"         "o"         "f"         "i"        
"1"         "p"  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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