basename
Manipulate File Paths
Description
basename removes all parts of the specified path, up
to the last path separator.
dirname returns the part of the specified path
up to, but not including, the last path separator.
(It returns "." if the path contains no path separator.)
Usage
basename(path)
dirname(path)
Arguments
| path |
a character vector that specifies a path to a file.
|
Details
These functions always remove the trailing file separators
before operating on the path. dirname does not return
trailing file separators.
These functions are similar to the command line utilities by the same name in
Unix/Linux.
Value
returns a character vector the same length as path,
containing either the final filenames (basename) or
the path up the final filenames (dirname).
See Also
Examples
dirname(c("salmon.csv", "/users/bob/data/salmon.csv"))
# [1] "." "/users/bob/data"
basename(c("/users/bob/data/", "/users/bob/data/salmon.csv"))
# [1] "data" "salmon.csv"