Extract last word in string in R

Question

What\'s the most elegant way to extract the last word in a sentence string?

The sentence does not end with a \".\" Words are seperated by blanks.

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Answer 1

Just for completeness: The library stringr contains a function for exactly this problem.

library(stringr)

sentence <- "The quick brown fox"
word(sentence,-1)
[1] "fox"