Ok it looks like this x y z a 12 12 34 b 34 34 35 c 56 78 0 where the numbers are counts of cases I can read it in, but how do I tell R it's a table? Dirk -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/read-in-summarised-data-as-table-tp3442283p3443102.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.