Good day, > These questions really belong to the support site.
I suppose, although it seemed like an unexpected issue at first because it's not documented within ?lowlevel-matching so users don't know what to expect. > You'll get that behaviour by allowing indels. This reveals a discrepancy between the documentation and the way the function operates. In the documentation, the function definition of vmatchPattern has with.indels = FALSE in it. However, changing it to TRUE results in Error in .XStringSet.vmatchPattern(pattern, subject, max.mismatch, min.mismatch, : vmatchPattern() does not support indels yet This is utilising Biostrings 2.42.0 in R 3.3.1. -------------------------------------- Dario Strbenac University of Sydney Camperdown NSW 2050 Australia _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel