getParent {R.utils} | R Documentation |
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.
## Default S3 method: getParent(pathname, depth=1, fsep=.Platform$file.sep, ...)
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. |
Returns a character
string if the parent exists, otherwise NULL
.
Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)