Suppose I have the following list: test <- list(a=3,b=5,c=11)
I'm trying to figure out how to extract the characters to the left of the equal sign (i.e., I want to extract a list of the variable names, a, b and c.
I've tried the permutations I know of involving sub - things like sub("\\=.*", "", test), but no matter what I try, sub keeps returning (3, 5, 11). In other words, even though I'm trying to extract the 'stuff' before the = sign, I seem to be successful only at grabbing the stuff after the equal sign.
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