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

Going in the package direction, this is the simplest answer I can think of:

library(stringr)

x <- 'The quick brown fox'
str_extract(x, '\\w+$')
#[1] "fox"