title: Import ASCII file into R
body: <p>I have several ASCII files I Need to Import into R with return data for different asset classes. The structure of the ASCII files is as follows (with 2 sample data)</p>
  
  <p>How can I Import this? I wasn't succesfull with read.table, but I would like to have it in a data.frame Format.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Security Name&gt; &lt;Ticker&gt; &lt;Per&gt; &lt;Date&gt; &lt;Close&gt;
  Test Description,Test,D,19700101,1.0000
  Test Description,Test,D,19700102,1.5
  </code></pre>