getParent

From R.utils v2.7.0 by Henrik Bengtsson

Gets the string of the parent specified by this pathname

Gets the string of the parent specified by this pathname. This is basically, by default the string before the last path separator of the absolute pathname.

Keywords: programming, IO

Usage

# S3 method for default
getParent(pathname, depth=1L, fsep=.Platform$file.sep, ...)

Arguments

pathname: A character string of the pathname to be checked.
depth: An integer specifying how many generations up the path should go.
fsep: A character string of the file separator.
...: Not used.

Value

Returns a character string if the parent exists, otherwise NULL.

Documentation reproduced from package R.utils, version 2.7.0, License: LGPL (>= 2.1)

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