reading a specific line of a text file in R

Question

I have a file in txt format separated by tabs. The question that I have is that if its possible to jump to an specific line, but without using a for loop, for example if I want to jump to the second line I have done this:

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

but I dont want to use a for loop, how I can do that? Thanks

Answer 1

Use read.table() and provide the number of lines to skip in the skip argument. Type in ?read.table at the console for more information on additional arguments and wrappers that you can use.