[R] Beginner needs help with R

[Ivan Calandra]

Hi Nabila,

This is because you ask to create a sequence with seq(), which does not 
make much sense with non numeric data. That's why R trims the 0.

One alternative would be:
seq2 <- paste("DQ0", seq(60054, 60060), sep = "")

Would that work for you?

HTH,
Ivan

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On 06/02/2017 02:50, Nabila Arbi wrote:
> Dear R-Help Team!
>
> I have some trouble with R. It's probably nothing big, but I can't find a
> solution.
> My problem is the following:
> I am trying to download some sequences from ncbi using the ape package.
>
> seq1 <- paste("DQ", seq(060054, 060060), sep = "")
>
> sequences <- read.GenBank(seq1,
> seq.names = seq1,
> species.names = TRUE,
> gene.names = FALSE,
> as.character = TRUE)
>
> write.dna(sequences, "mysequences.fas", format = "fasta")
>
> My problem is, that R doesn't take the whole sequence number as "060054"
> but it puts it as DQ60054 (missing the zero in the beginning, which is
> essential).
>
> Could please tell me, how I can get R to accepting the zero in the
> beginning of the accession number?
>
> Thank you very much in advance and all the best!
>
> Nabila
>
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