[R] when to use textConnection ??

[skan]

Hello.

I don't uderstant when to use textConnection and when not.
Some examples do it, some not.
I've even seen something like

con <- textConnection(rev(rev(ReadLines('data.txt'))[-(1:2]))
data <- read.table(con)
close(con)

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