R How do i split a string into a vector so that each place in the vector corresponds to a letter

Question

I am trying to split a string let's say "abcde" into a vector of "a","b","c","d","e"

How can i do that?

i have tried strsplit but that makes it into 1 element

a=unlist(strsplit("abcde", split=" "))

You need to split on an empty string: `unlist(strsplit("abcde", split=""))`; from `?strsplit`: *If empty matches occur, in particular if ‘split’ has length 0, ‘x’ is split into single characters*. — Maurits Evers, Dec 11 '18 at 23:34

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 11 '18 at 23:34

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We need the split = ""

unlist(strsplit('abcde', ''))

answered Dec 11 '18 at 23:34

akrun

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Ah, thank you this worked feel a bit stupid, but hey i am still learning. (cant tag it as answered yet) – Frederik A. Dec 11 '18 at 23:38

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