skip and n_max

Through skip and n_max you can control which part of your flat file you're actually importing into R.

skip specifies the number of lines you're ignoring in the flat file before actually starting to import data.
n_max specifies the number of lines you're actually importing.

Say for example you have a CSV file with 20 lines, and set skip = 2 and n_max = 3, you're only reading in lines 3, 4 and 5 of the file.

Watch out: Once you skip some lines, you also skip the first line that can contain column names!

potatoes.txt (view), a flat file with tab-delimited records and without column names, is available in your workspace.

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Finish the first read_tsv() call to import observations 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 from potatoes.txt.