Extract last word in string in R

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Solution

tail(strsplit('this is a sentence',split=" ")[[1]],1)

Basically as suggested by @Señor O.

Problem

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. ``` sentence <- "The quick brown fox" TheFunction(sentence) ``` should return: "fox" I do not want to use a package if a simple solution is possible. If a simple solution based on package exists, that is also fine.

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