[Rd] [R] string problems with "\\" (Windows)

[Duncan Murdoch]

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Moved to r-devel.
>
> Perhaps basename should take an optional separator argument
> so that
>
>    basename(x, "\\")
>
> could be used to override the default behavior.
>   

That seems like a reasonable idea, but not very high priority.  Anyone 
want to contribute a patch (to the source and man page)?

Duncan Murdoch
> On 7/9/06, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>   
>> basename() works.  If you're on a system that doesn't think \\ is a path
>> separator, you could do something like
>>
>> x <- "C:\\Documents and Settings\\myName\\My
>> Documents\\RProjects\\Project1\\file.name.csv"
>> basename(gsub('\\\\','/',x))
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>> Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
>>     
>>> Greetings, R-ians:
>>>
>>> I'm using R 2.3.1 on WindowsXP.
>>>
>>> I need to find the name of a file at the end of a sting that contains the
>>> path + file, with the problematic "\\" as separators.
>>>
>>> The string looks something like this:
>>>
>>> "C:\\Documents and Settings\\myName\\My Documents\\R
>>> Projects\\Project1\\file.name.csv"
>>>
>>> What I want is "file.name.csv"
>>>
>>> Currently I use the name of the project as the splitter in
>>>
>>> strsplit(string.name, split="Project1", extended = FALSE)
>>>
>>> This works, of course, but I won't always be using folder Project1, so I
>>> need a more universal way to find the name of a file at the end of a string
>>> with "\\" separators.
>>>
>>> Can I get there from here?  (I've looked through previous R-help listing of
>>> similar problems but if it's there, I missed it.)
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Charles Annis, P.E.
>>>
>>> Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
>>> phone: 561-352-9699
>>> eFax:  614-455-3265
>>> http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
>>>
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