Characters To Matrix

Bob Roberts <quagmire54321 <at> yahoo.com> writes:

   I have a data set that I read in using readLines, but R classes it as a

character string. The data set has

multiple columns and rows, but I only want the first 2 columns in the form of

a matrix. Thanks for the help.

data(CO2)
str(CO2)
col2 = as.matrix(CO2[,1:2])
str(col2)


Dieter