Working with R:
I took multiple strings of letters:
Orig1 - ABCDE
Orig2 - FGHIJ
Orig3 - KLMNO
I split those strings of letters using strsplit:
Orig1 - A B C D E
Orig2 - F G H I J
Orig3 - K L M N O
And I put each letter in its own row and column in a dataframe. Each string on its own row with each subsequent letter in its own column:
RowName V1 V2 V3 V4 V5
Orig1 A B C D E
Orig2 F G H I J
Orig3 K L M N O
I manipulated these strings of letters to come up with a multiple altered strings based on various analyses of these strings of letters:
RowName V1 V2 V3 V4 V5
Altered1 A G H N E
Altered2 F B C I O
Altered3 K L M D J
I can't figure out how to collapse the altered strings back out of the dataframe. I need this to be able to be converted into an exportable .fasta file with the rownames as the subsequent sequence names.
Paste didn't work within the dataframe, so I tried using a bit of code from another thread on a similar subject:
ldf = lapply(as.list(1:dim(df)[1]), function(x) df[x[1],])
this put each into its own list, which I could then use paste on, but I found the output baffling to try to export.
Any help would be appreciated.
I am not sure if you want this
> do.call(paste,c(df[-1],sep = ""))
[1] "AGHNE" "FBCIO" "KLMDJ"
Data
df <- structure(list(RowName = c("Altered1", "Altered2", "Altered3"
), V1 = c("A", "F", "K"), V2 = c("G", "B", "L"), V3 = c("H",
"C", "M"), V4 = c("N", "I", "D"), V5 = c("E", "O", "J")), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
-3L))
> df
RowName V1 V2 V3 V4 V5
1 Altered1 A G H N E
2 Altered2 F B C I O
3 Altered3 K L M D J