[BioC] Replacing commas with new lines in R

[Ovokeraye Achinike-Oduaran]

Hi Sean and Nicholas,

Thanks. strsplit() worked great for my purposes. And Nicholas, I
wanted it to remain in a structure that worked for R. Sorry I wasn't
very clear on that.

Thanks again.

-Avoks

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Sean Davis <sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Ovokeraye Achinike-Oduaran
> <ovokeraye at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a file that looks like this (the genes column from different
>> DAVID functional annotation chart categories). I would like to replace
>> the commas with new lines if possible so that I can have a single gene
>> per row. How can I possibly do this in R?
>
> Have a look at strsplit().
>
> Sean
>
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Avoks
>>
>> [1] DCD, PPARG, FTO, IGF2BP2, TSPAN8, CDKAL1, LGR5, KCNJ11, TCF7L2,
>> THADA, NOTCH2, HHEX, ADAMTS9, CDKN2A, CDKN2B, VEGFA, SYN2, CDC123,
>> JAZF1, ADAM30, CAMK1D
>> [2] HHEX, CDKN2A, CDKN2B, PPARG, IGF2BP2, CDKAL1, SLC30A8, KCNJ11,
>> TCF7L2
>> [3] HHEX, CDKN2B, FTO, PPARG, IGF2BP2, CDKAL1, SLC30A8, KCNJ11, TCF7L2
>> [4] HHEX, CDKN2A, CDKN2B, PPARG, IGF2BP2, CDKAL1, SLC30A8, KCNJ11,
>> TCF7L2
>> [5] STRAP, U2AF2, SNRPD1, XAB2, YBX1, SART1, NONO, HNRNPA3, HNRNPK,
>> SRRM2, CDC40, DHX15, SRRM1, QKI, LSM2, PRPF31, PTBP1, SF1, RNPS1,
>> CDC5L, SF3A2, HNRNPU, RBMY1A1, EIF4A3, SFPQ, KHSRP, RBM38, SNRPE
>> [6] MAEA, AURKAIP1, PML, SMAD3, IGF1, CDC16, GAS1, RCC1, PROX1, TGFB1,
>> TRIAP1, CDKN2A, CDKN2B, HNF4A, CDC123, PEBP1, RBM38, FOXC1, TPR,
>> RAD17, SMARCA4, APC, DLG1
>>
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