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

Another packaged option is stri_extract_last_words() from the stringi package

library(stringi)

stri_extract_last_words("The quick brown fox")
# [1] "fox"

The function also removes any punctuation that may be at the end of the sentence.

stri_extract_last_words("The quick brown fox? ...")
# [1] "fox"