randDNA {RBioinf}R Documentation

A function to generate random DNA sequences.

Description

This function generates random DNA sequences, nucleotides are sampled with frequency 0.25 each.

Usage

randDNA(n)

Arguments

n The length of the sequence desired.

Details

This function generates random sequences of A, C, T and G. Real DNA is quite different, so one should not use these sequences for much other than pedagogical purposes.

Value

A length one character vector, with n characters randomly chosen from A, C, T and G.

Author(s)

R. Gentleman

Examples

randDNA(100)

[Package RBioinf version 1.2.0 Index]