On 21 Aug 2014, at 15:47 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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")). > Yep, slight variant: > l <- list(`a\\b`=1) > l $`a\b` [1] 1 > l$`a\b` NULL > l$`a\\b` [1] 1 > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
