[BioC] Sequence output formatting

[Richard Pearson]

You might also want to look at ?cat, e.g.

cat(paste(">",acc[i],sep=""),"\n")


might do what you want (you need the "\n" to get a newline character).

Richard.


J.delasHeras at ed.ac.uk wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Brewer <daniel.brewer at icr.ac.uk>:
>
>   
>> Just a quick question.  Is there any way to stop the "[1]" outputting
>> when printing to a file?
>>
>> I am trying to create a fasta format file using the following:
>> sink(file = "fastaseq.txt")
>> for (i in 1:length(acc))
>> {
>> print(paste(">",acc[i],sep=""))
>> print(getSEQ(acc[i]))
>> }
>> sink(file = NULL)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Dan
>>     
>
> Not sure if this is the best way, but you can create a character  
> variable for your text, and use write.table to save it into a text  
> file. That's the method I use in a couple of functions I made to do  
> stuff with DNA sequences and it works.
>
> Jose
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