I have a small data from a text file read via `readLines`. The file had characters like `#` and I think that is the reason read.table was unable to read it. Here is the first five lines dput:

```
files<-c("\trfinal\t\t", "eq1\t\t\t", "0.ster6\t1.00\t(1.00,1.00)\t.", 
     "1.ster6\t0.65\t(0.47,0.88)\t0.006", "0.parkinson\t1.00\t(1.00,1.00)\t.", 
     "1.ster6#0.parkinson\t1.00\t(1.00,1.00)\t.")

```

`\t` means white space between strings. I would like to split this text lines and put them into a 4 column grid (data frame).

I tried `strsplit(files, "[\\t]")` but it doesn't really do the trick. Any help ?