read.csv Read Specific Row [duplicate]

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Read csv from specific row (3 answers)

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How can we read specific rows into R using the read.csv command? Say if I have a CSV file which has 10 rows of data, and I just want to only read the 5th row of data, I tried doing the following but it doesn't seem to be working:

myFile <- "MockData.csv"
myData <- read.csv(myFile, row.names=5)
myData

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try:

myData <- read.csv(myFile, nrows=1, skip=4)

Answer 2

In order to read from 2nd row till the bottom of the file row by row (assuming that the first row is the header and can be omitted), what has been done is as such:

myFile <- "MockData.csv"
myData <- read.csv(myFile, skip=0, nrows=1)

And then:

myData <- read.csv(myFile, skip=1, nrows=1)

Followed by:

myData <- read.csv(myFile, skip=2, nrows=1)

And so on...