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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-1] Sandra Romero wrote:

> 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.

use scan, then strsplit, or if you prefer, read.fwf

>
> Thank you in advanced.
>
> Sandra
>
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