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Hello, I have a problem. I have to read a HUGE file which has to be line processed, so I would like to use scan like p <- scan(pfile,what=c(0,0,0,"",0,""),nlines=1) but it continues to read the first line, so I have to add a skip and increment the skip after each read. It takes forever to read a test file of 1 Mb, the real one is in 60's Mb Is there a way to read line