| Title | Map Filenames to MIME Types |
| Version | 0.13.1 |
| Description | Guesses the MIME type from a filename extension using the data derived from /etc/mime.types in UNIX-type systems. |
| Imports | tools |
| License | GPL |
| URL | https://github.com/yihui/mime |
| BugReports | https://github.com/yihui/mime/issues |
| Author | Yihui Xie  [aut, cre], Jeffrey Horner [ctb], Beilei Bian [ctb] |
This is an R package for mapping filename extensions to MIME
types, based on the data
derived from
/etc/mime.types.
# installation
install.packages('mime')
library(mime)
guess_type(c('a/b/c.html', 'd.pdf', 'e.odt', 'foo.docx', 'tex'))
# [1] "text/html"
# [2] "application/pdf"
# [3] "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text"
# [4] "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document"
# [5] "text/x-tex"
Appendix
To cite the package mime in publications, please use:
Xie Y (2025). mime: Map Filenames to MIME Types. R package version 0.13.1, https://github.com/yihui/mime.
@Manual{,
title = {mime: Map Filenames to MIME Types},
author = {Yihui Xie},
year = {2025},
note = {R package version 0.13.1},
url = {https://github.com/yihui/mime},
}