R how to get a list of characters in a string

Question

In R how could i get list of characters that are contained in a string. I have provided an example below

somefunction("abc")
should return
"a","b","c"

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I am planning to get all the characters, sort them and join them back. I tried paste function but it didnt work :( Any inputs?

sort(strsplit('cba','')[[1]])
paste(sort(strsplit('cba','')[[1]]))

Answer 1

You can do:

strsplit('abc','')[[1]]

Answer 2

You could try

 paste(sort(strsplit('cba','')[[1]]), collapse='')
 #[1] "abc"