[BioC] how to split one word into letters

[John Zhang]

>Have you tried substring()? The method i can think of
>now is to get the length of the string (word) by
>nchar(), and then loop through by substring(). There
>may be smarter methods out there that I haven't
>realized.

How about 

>substring("abcdef",1:6,1:6)
[1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f"



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>Wenbin
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>--- "Liu, Xin" <Xin.Liu at arradx.com> wrote:
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>> Dear all, 
>> 
>> Somebody knows how to split one word into letters?
>> Such as split "alabama" into letters "a", "l",
>> "a","b","a","m","a".
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> Xin
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Jianhua Zhang
Department of Biostatistics
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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