[R] Isolating string containing only file name from complete path

Sebastian Luque spluque at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 18:24:00 CEST 2005


"Ken Termiso" <jerk_alert at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What I'd like to do is to is to be able to extract a string
> corresponding to only the file name from a string containing the
> complete path, i.e. from the following path string:
>
> "/Users/ken/Desktop/test/runs/file1"
>
> I would like to end up with:
>
> "file1"


?basename

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Sebastian P. Luque




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