[R] Getting a list of unique gene names from a list with semi-colons

[R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>]

I think you can do this with something like this (untested):

unique(unlist(strsplit(XXX, ",")))

Michael

On Jan 6, 2012, at 8:05 PM, Kurinji Pandiyan <kurinji.pandiyan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have one column in my dataframe that has gene names of interest.
> Unfortunately, due to the fact that some probes lie between two genes or
> two transcripts of a gene, it looks something like this -
> 
>  FAM81A  LOC283050;LOC283050;LOC283050;ZMIZ1  PINK1;PINK1  MRPL12;MRPL12
> C1orf114  MMS19;UBTD1
> I would like to know how to get a list with all the names with no
> semi-colons and removing the replicates. I would like the end result to
> look like -
> 
> FAM81A
> LOC283050
> ZMIZI
> PINK1
> MRPL12
> C1orf114
> MMS19
> UBTD1
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> Kurinji
> 
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