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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try:

basename(string.name)


On 7/9/06, Charles Annis, P.E. <Charles.Annis at statisticalengineering.com> 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
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>
>
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