[R] assigning a file name, or part of, to an object

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Check out the various help pages on string manipulation:

help.search(keyword = "character", package = "base")

and particularly ?sub, ?substr and ?regex

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Jim Bouldin <jrbouldin at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to capure all, or part, of a filename and assign it to an
> object.  Say I wanted to read in a file tiled "example.txt" and then assign
> the character string "example" (or "exa" or any other substring of
> "example" for that matter), to object a.  Is there a simple way to do so?
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>
>
> Jim Bouldin
> Research Ecologist
> Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
> Davis CA, 95616
> 530-554-1740
>
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