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I have a vector of gene symbols, some of which have multiple aliases. In the case of an alias, they are separated by ' \\\ '. Here is a real world example, which would represent one element of my vector: Eif4g2 /// Eif4g2-ps1 /// LOC678831 What I would like to do is input the vector into a function and output a vector with just the first alias of each element (or, if there are no aliases, just the one symbol). So I wrote a simple little function to do this: get.first.id.func <- function(vec, splitter){ vec.lst <- strsplit(v...