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 This e-mail is from ArraDx Ltd The e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidentia...{{dropped}}

> Somebody knows how to split one word into letters? Such as split > "alabama" into letters "a", "l", "a","b","a","m","a". strsplit("alabama", "")

strsplit() is your friend: > strsplit("alabama", "")[[1]] [1] "a" "l" "a" "b" "a" "m" "a" Cheers, Andy > From: Liu, Xin > > 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 > > This e-mail is from ArraDx Ltd > > The e-mail and any files transmitted with it are > confidentia...{{dropped}} > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > >

Liu, Xin wrote: > Dear all, > > Somebody knows how to split one word into letters? Such as split "alabama" into letters "a", "l", "a","b","a","m","a". strsplit("alabama", NULL) > > Cheers! > Xin > > This e-mail is from ArraDx Ltd > > The e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidentia...{{dropped}} > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor -- James W. MacDonald Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core University of Michigan Cancer Center 1500 E. Medical Center Drive 7410 CCGC Ann Arbor MI 48109

unlist(strsplit("alabama","")) > 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 > > This e-mail is from ArraDx Ltd > > The e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidentia...{{dropped}} > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > > -- Fangxin Hong, Ph.D. Plant Biology Laboratory The Salk Institute 10010 N. Torrey Pines Rd. La Jolla, CA 92037 E-mail: fhong@salk.edu

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. Wenbin --- "Liu, Xin" <xin.liu@arradx.com> wrote: > 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 > > This e-mail is from ArraDx Ltd > > The e-mail and any files transmitted with it are > confidentia...{{dropped}} > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > __________________________________ Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today!

strsplit(word,split="") will do this. Reid Huntsinger -----Original Message----- From: bioconductor-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:bioconductor-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Wenbin Liu Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 10:44 AM To: Liu, Xin; bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [BioC] how to split one word into letters 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. Wenbin --- "Liu, Xin" <xin.liu@arradx.com> wrote: > 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 > > This e-mail is from ArraDx Ltd > > The e-mail and any files transmitted with it are > confidentia...{{dropped}} > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > __________________________________ Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! _______________________________________________ Bioconductor mailing list Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor

>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" > >Wenbin > > >--- "Liu, Xin" <xin.liu@arradx.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> This e-mail is from ArraDx Ltd >> >> The e-mail and any files transmitted with it are >> confidentia...{{dropped}} >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >> > > > > >__________________________________ > >Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! > >_______________________________________________ >Bioconductor mailing list >Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor Jianhua Zhang Department of Biostatistics Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 44 Binney Street Boston, MA 02115-6084