Try this also:

substr(basename(myfile), 1, nchar(basename(myfile)) - 4)

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Gundala Viswanath <gundalav@gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> The basename() function returns the extension also:
>
> > myfile <- "path1/path2/myoutput.txt"
> > basename(myfile)
> [1] "myoutput.txt"
>
>
> Is there any other function where it just returns
> plain base:
>
> "myoutput"
>
> i.e. without 'txt'
>
> - Gundala Viswanath
> Jakarta - Indonesia
>
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