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The behaviour of setting names differs between lists and atomic vectors

Richard Cotton 
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?

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Richard Cotton The behaviour of setting names differs between lists and atomic vectors Aug 21 Duncan Murdoch The behaviour of setting names differs between lists and atomic vectors Aug 21 Peter Dalgaard The behaviour of setting names differs between lists and atomic vectors Aug 21 Martin Maechler The behaviour of setting names differs between lists and atomic vectors Aug 25