Sorry for the stupid question but I'm stuck on a really stupid problem. I'm trying to output the results of some analysis and want a column of the DNA sequences stored in a DNAString. For example, the example below, I can use start(DNAString), end(DNAString), and width(DNAString) to extract the start, end, and width columns, but how do I extract the last column, which contains the actual DNA sequences? Again, sorry for the stupid question and thank you in advance for any help.

  Views on a 249250621-letter DNAString subject
subject: NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN...NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
views:
          start       end width
  [1]   1534983   1534990     8 [ACGTCGGG]
  [2]   2017082   2017089     8 [ACGTCGGG]
  [3]   2017138   2017145     8 [ACGTCGGG]
  [4]   2017194   2017201     8 [ACGTCGGG]
  [5]   2946138   2946145     8 [ACGTCGGG]
  ...       ...       ...   ... ...
[121] 245722047 245722054     8 [ACGTCGGG]
[122] 245752365 245752372     8 [ACGTCGGG]
[123] 246954563 246954570     8 [ACGTCGGG]
[124] 247282857 247282864     8 [ACGTCGGG]
[125] 249239868 249239875     8 [ACGTCGGG]

That's not a DNAStringSet. It's a Views() on a DNAStringSet. Regardless, you want as.character().

> d <- DNAString("TTGTCAATGTGC")
> dd2 <- Views(d, start = 3:1, end = 5:7)
> dd2
  Views on a 12-letter DNAString subject
subject: TTGTCAATGTGC
views:
    start end width
[1]     3   5     3 [GTC]
[2]     2   6     5 [TGTCA]
[3]     1   7     7 [TTGTCAA]
> as.character(dd2)
[1] "GTC"     "TGTCA"   "TTGTCAA"
> as.character(d)
[1] "TTGTCAATGTGC"