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.
# 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.