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

You could (in most cases), sub out the ending ; write a new file without the second row (which is really the first row because of the header), and use read.csv instead of read.table

> txt <- "Index;Time;
  1;2345;
  2;1423;
  3;5123;" 
> writeLines(sub(";$", "", readLines(textConnection(txt))[-2]), 'newTxt.txt')
> read.csv('newTxt.txt', sep = ";")
##   Index Time
## 1     2 1423
## 2     3 5123