How can I determine the current directory name in R?

Question

The only solution I\'ve encountered is to use regular expressions and recursively replace the first directory until you get a word with no slashes.

gsub(\"/\         


        

Answer 1

If you didn't know basename (and I didn't), you could have used this:

tail(strsplit(getwd(), "/")[[1]], 1)

Answer 2

Your example code doesn't work for me, but you're probably looking for either basename or dirname:

> getwd()
[1] "C:/cvswork/data"
> basename(getwd())
[1] "data"
> dirname(getwd())
[1] "C:/cvswork"