Seems like you can do: library("matchprobes") # on Bioconductor countbases("TCGGGGGACAATCGGTAACCCGTCT")[,"G"]
The catch is that it only counts A, C, G, and T:s and no other symbols. /Henrik On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Daren Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any better solution than this ? > > sum(strsplit("TCGGGGGACAATCGGTAACCCGTCT", "")[[1]] == "G") > _________________________________________________________________ > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.