Convert string characters to list

Question

I need convert strings like string below to list.

a = "ATTCCGGAACTTAA" ##string
b = list("A","T","T","C","C","G","G","A","A","C","T","T","A","A"). ##list

What have you tried so far? There are other similar posts on SO—which ones have you checked that haven't helped? — camille, Nov 04 '19 at 21:05
Does this answer your question? [Split a character vector into individual characters? (opposite of paste or stringr::str\_c)](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23028885/split-a-character-vector-into-individual-characters-opposite-of-paste-or-strin) — camille, Nov 04 '19 at 21:10

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 04 '19 at 20:27

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An option is to split with strsplit and convert to list with as.list

as.list(strsplit(a, "")[[1]])

answered Nov 04 '19 at 20:27

akrun

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 05 '19 at 07:05

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You can try it with utf8ToInt and intToUtf8:

b <- Map(intToUtf8, as.list(utf8ToInt(a)))

answered Nov 05 '19 at 07:05

ThomasIsCoding

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