Hi Marco, Vince is correct to point out that the problem is being caused by name-mangling that happens when you use the unlist() method. This occurs because the authors of the unlist() method wanted to guarantee that the names returned by unlist() remained unique. However, as you have discovered, this becomes a problem when the names have a meaning and the name-mangling ends up changing that. :( There is a work around though. If you just want to do something like unlist() with this, you have the option to use the unlist2() method in the AnnotationDbi package which will allow you to skip the troublesome name-mangling. Marc On 07/19/2010 10:30 AM, Vincent Carey wrote: >> unlist(mget('NM_016951', revmap(hgug4112aREFSEQ))) >> > NM_0169511 NM_0169512 NM_0169513 > "A_23_P118061" "A_23_P206396" "A_24_P215804" > > This has nothing to do with regular expressions. It has to do with > name mangling and an odd application of > mget. > > >> mget('NM_016951', revmap(hgug4112aREFSEQ)) >> > $NM_016951 > [1] "A_23_P118061" "A_23_P206396" "A_24_P215804" > > you don't need mget for this application. if you use it and unlist() > the results, unlist will add distinguishing tokens > to the names of the list elements as their names are pushed onto the > unlisted data. > > >> unlist(list(a=c(2,3))) >> > a1 a2 > 2 3 > > >> unlist(list(a=c(b=2,d=3))) >> > a.b a.d > 2 3 > > > > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Marco Fabbri <fabbri.marco at="" gmail.com=""> wrote: > >> I am looking for refseq NM_016951 but mget returns me three results, >> how can I get only for NM_016951 (the first one): >> >> unlist(mget('NM_016951', revmap(hgug4112aREFSEQ)) >> NM_016951 NM_0169512 NM_0169513 >> "A_23_P118061" "A_23_P206396" "A_24_P215804" >> >> thank you >> >> Marco >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >> Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >