[R] How to read a long string of characters as a vector

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Sandra Romero <srhidalgo at yahoo.com> writes:

> Dear R users,
> 
> I would really appreciate some help, I have a plain
> text file which contains info like
> 
> NANATGGGGGGGCCCAGCTTGAATTCCCNTCCCCNTTCCCATCCAGGCC
> 
> I would like to read it as a vector, for example,
> (N,A,N,A,T,G,G,G,G,G,G,G,C,C,C,........)
> 
> I've tried commands such as read.table and scan but I
> don't get what I want.

You probably can't do it on input, but have a look at strsplit().

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