On 21/08/2014 9:26 AM, Richard Cotton wrote:
If you set the names in a list, some cat-style processing seems to
happen. For example, backslashes are modified. This behaviour
doesn't happen with atomic vectors. Compare, for example:
setNames(1, "a\\b")
## a\\b
## 1
setNames(list(1), "a\\b")
## $`a\b`
## [1] 1
Notice that the name of the element in the list has been changed to
'a', 'backspace'.
Is this behaviour intended, or a bug?
I think there's a bug, but not in names<- (or setNames, which calls
it). The bug is in the printing, as you'll see if you look at
names(setNames(list(1), "a\\b")).
Duncan Murdoch
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