r - Extract file extension from file path

Question

How can I extract the extension of a file given a file path as a character? I know I can do this via regular expression regexpr("\.([[:alnum:]]+)$", x), but wondering if there's a built-in function to deal with this?

Answer 1

This is the sort of thing that easily found with R basic tools. E.g.: ??path.

Anyway, load the tools package and read ?file_ext .