rmv.ext: Remove the file extension from a file-name.

In reader: Suite of Functions to Flexibly Read Data from Files

Description

Default is to only remove from a known list of file types, this is to protect files with '.' which may not have an extension This option can be changed, and more types can be specified too.

Usage

rmv.ext(fn = NULL, only.known = TRUE, more.known = NULL,
  print.known = FALSE)

Arguments

fn	filename(s) (with full path is ok too)
only.known	logical, only remove extension if in the 'known' list
more.known	character vector, add to the list of known extensions
print.known	return the list of 'known' file extensions

Value

returns the file name/path without the file extension

Author(s)

Nicholas Cooper [e-mail]

See Also

get.ext

Examples

rmv.ext(print.known=TRUE)
rmv.ext("/documents/nick/mydoc.xlsx")
rmv.ext(c("temp.cnv","temp.txt","temp.epi"))
# remove anything that looks like an extension
rmv.ext(c("temp.cnv","temp.txt","temp.epi"),only.known=FALSE) 
# add to list of known extensions
rmv.ext(c("temp.cnv","temp.txt","temp.epi"),more.known="epi") 

Example output

Loading required package: NCmisc

Attaching package: 'reader'

The following objects are masked from 'package:NCmisc':

    cat.path, get.ext, rmv.ext

 [1] "TXT"   "RDATA" "TAB"   "DAT"   "CSV"   "VCF"   "GCM"   "BIM"   "MAP"  
[10] "FAM"   "PFB"   "SH"    "R"     "CPP"   "H"     "DOC"   "DOCX"  "XLS"  
[19] "XLSX"  "PDF"   "JPG"   "BMP"   "PNG"   "TAR"   "GZ"    "CNV"   "PL"   
[28] "PY"    "ZIP"   "ORG"   "RDA"   "DSC"   "BCK"   "ABW"   "HTM"   "HTML" 
/documents/nick/mydoc.xlsx 
   "/documents/nick/mydoc" 
  temp.cnv   temp.txt   temp.epi 
    "temp"     "temp" "temp.epi" 
temp.cnv temp.txt temp.epi 
  "temp"   "temp"   "temp" 
temp.cnv temp.txt temp.epi 
  "temp"   "temp"   "temp" 

reader documentation built on May 2, 2019, 9:27 a.m.