R: Split a path into components

splitPath {BBmisc} | R Documentation

## Split a path into components

### Description

The first normalized path is split on forward and backward slashes and its components returned as character vector. The drive or network home are extracted separately on windows systems and empty on all other systems.

### Usage

    splitPath(path)

### Arguments

`path` | [`character(1)`] Path to split as string

### Value

`named list`: List with components “drive” (`character(1)` and “path” (`character(n)`.

[Package BBmisc version 1.11 Index]