How can I determine the current directory name in R?

Your example code doesn't work for me, but you're probably looking for either basename or dirname:

> getwd()[1] "C:/cvswork/data"> basename(getwd())[1] "data"> dirname(getwd())[1] "C:/cvswork"

r command dirname

If you didn't know basename (and I didn't), you could have used this:

tail(strsplit(getwd(), "/")[[1]], 1)

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