Re: [R] string problems with \\ (Windows)
Try: basename(string.name) On 7/9/06, Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] string problems with \\ (Windows)
?basename On 7/9/06, Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 (Cell) +1 513 247 0281 (Home) What is the problem you are trying to solve? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] string problems with \\ (Windows)
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.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 561-352-9699
eFax: 614-455-3265
http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
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