Reading a specific line of a text file in R

Question

I have a tab file in txt format. The question that I have is that if it can go to a specific line, but without using a for loop, for example, if I want to go to the second line, I did the following:

fileName="table.txt" con=file(fileName,open="r") for (i in 1:2){ ctable<-readLines(con,n=1) } 

but I don't want to use a for loop, how can I do this? Thanks

Answer 1

Use read.table() and specify the number of skipped lines in the skip argument. Type ?read.table in the console for more information on additional arguments and shells that you can use.