Would

basename(choose.files())

work for your usage?
Still, a full.names argument might be useful.

Peter Ehlers

Brooks, Anthony B wrote:

> Hi
> I am writing a script to generate a QC report for some data based on a number 
> of files. I am currently using the choose.files function to select the files 
> as not all the files need to be QC'd. One minor issue is that choose.files 
> returns the complete path of the filename (eg "C:/QCdata/Test1/File01", 
> "C:/QCdata/Test1/File02"...). Is it possible to use choose.files to return 
> just the file name eg("File01", "File02"...), in a way similar to the 
> full.names=FALSE argument in the dir function.
> 
> Thanks
> Tony
> 
> 
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