title: Converting a list into a character object in R
body: <p>I would like to convert a list as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    list(structure(c(16L, 17L, 71L, 87L, 113L, 120L, 127L, 128L, 
        144L, 177L, 207L, 213L), .Names = c("246653_at", "246897_at", 
        "251347_at", "252988_at", "255528_at", "256535_at", "257203_at", 
        "257582_at", "258807_at", "261509_at", "265050_at", "265672_at")))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>into a character object:</p>
  
  <pre><code>         c("246653_at", "246897_at", "251347_at", "252988_at", "255528_at", 
           "256535_at", "257203_at", "257582_at", "258807_at", "261509_at", 
           "265050_at", "265672_at")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried using </p>
  
  <pre><code>    as.character(fin[1])
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which gives me </p>
  
  <pre><code>   [1] "c(16, 17, 71, 87, 113, 120, 127, 128, 144, 177, 207, 213)"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I referred to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1867139/read-text-file-in-r-and-convert-it-to-a-character-object">this stack overflow post</a> but couldn't solve it.     </p>