How can I read the header but also skip lines - read.table()?

Question

Data.txt:

Index;Time;
1;2345;
2;1423;
3;5123;

The code:

dat <- read.table(\'data.txt\', skip = 1, nrows = 2, header =TRU         


        

Answer 1

Instead of read.table(), use a readr function such as read_csv(), piped to dplyr::slice().

library(readr)
library(dplyr)
dat <- read_csv("data.txt") %>% slice(-1)

It's very fast too.