getPath: Get the path of a vector of filenames

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

View source: R/getPath.R

Description

Get the path of a vector of filenames

Usage

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getPath(vec)

Arguments

vec

Character vector (usually containing filenames)

Details

Assumes paths are delineated using forward slashes. If an NA is supplied, then an NA is returned. If the desired string doesn't exist (see examples below), a "" is returned.

Value

Character vector with pathnames only, the filename removed

Author(s)

Landon Sego

See Also

Additional functions for filename manipulations: stripExtension, getExtension, stripPath, grabLast, basename, dirname

Examples

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getPath(c(a="this.good.path/filename.R", b="nopath.R", c="/", d=NA,
          e="path1/path2/", ""))

# An example with 'real' files
files <- dir(file.path(path.package(package = "Smisc"), "data"), full.names = TRUE)
print(files)
getPath(files)

Smisc documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:46 a.m.