r - read.csv, header on first line, skip second line

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This should do the trick:

all_content = readLines("file.csv")
skip_second = all_content[-2]
dat = read.csv(textConnection(skip_second), header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

The first step using readLines reads the entire file into a list, where each item in the list represents a line in the file. Next, you discard the second line using the fact that negative indexing in R means select all but this index. Finally, we feed this data to read.csv to process it into a data.frame.