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getParent

Gets the string of the parent specified by this pathname

Description

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.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
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.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

R.utils

Various Programming Utilities

v2.10.1

LGPL (>= 2.1)

Authors

Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph]

Initial release