title: Importing a text file into R
body: <p>I have a text file which contains over 100,000 rows which I download weekly from SAP. it is downloaded as pages and each page contains the same header along with dashed line. a minimal example with two pages each containing only two items is below.</p>
  
  <pre><code>------------------------------------------------------------
  |date              |Material          |Description         |
  |----------------------------------------------------------|
  |10/04/2013        |WM.5597394        |PNEUMATIC           |
  |11/07/2013        |GB.D040790        |RING                |
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  |date              |Material          |Description         |
  |----------------------------------------------------------|
  |08/06/2013        |WM.4M01004A05     |TOUCHEUR            |
  |08/06/2013        |WM.4M010108-1     |LEVER               |
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>what I would like to do is import this file into R with only one header and no dash lines. I tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>read.table( "myfile.txt",  sep = "|", fill=TRUE)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Many thanks</p>