Replace the suffix of a given file name with a new extension (suffix)

This helper function takes a file name fileName, removes its extension (suffix), and adds a new extension newSuffix.

Usage

replaceSuffix(fileName, newSuffix)

Arguments

fileName

A character vector with original filenames

newSuffix

A new extension to replace old extensions in file names fileName

Value

A character vector with new file names with old extensions replaced with newSuffix

Author

Michal Burda

Examples

replaceSuffix('filename.Rmd', '.pdf')          # 'filename.pdf'
#> [1] "filename.pdf"
replaceSuffix(c('a.x', 'b.y', 'c.z'), '.csv')  # 'a.csv', 'b.csv', 'c.csv'
#> [1] "a.csv" "b.csv" "c.csv"