Parse paml output file in R

Hi all,

Anyone familiar with a way to parse through the Bayes Empirical Bayes (BEB) results that come out of running PAML, in R? The file is formatted like so:

When I read it into R, it reads each line as a single character vector, therefore I have to seperate the elements into multiple columns. I tried using the separate function however because the number of spaces before the first numerical value varies, this did not work (there are 4 spaces before “87” in row 7 and only 3 spaces before “100” in row 8).

Desired output:

    col1     col2     col3
    24       S        0.583
    30       A        0.852
    34       C        0.566
    36       Q        0.563
    75       L        0.987*
    81       P        0.883
    87       A        0.570    
    100      H        0.925

Thank you.