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Hello, Here is a link to some data: http://www.epa.gov/emap/html/data/surfwatr/data/mastreams/9396/wchem/chmval.txt I am trying to read this in, and want to use: chmval <- read.table("http://www.epa.gov/emap/html/data/surfwatr/data/mastreams/9396/wchem/chmval.txt", sep=",", skip= 84, header=T) the # 84, for 84 lines skipped needs to be derived from the 5th line of the