[Rd] odd behavior of names

[David Winsemius]

> On Jul 29, 2018, at 6:31 AM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The first component name has backticks around it and the second does
> not. Though not wrong, it seems inconsistent.
> 
> list(a = 1, b = 2)
> ## $`a`
> ## [1] 1
> ##
> ## $b
> ## [1] 2
> 
> R.version.string
> ## [1] "R version 3.5.1 Patched (2018-07-02 r74950)"

Agree it would be unexpected. Unable to reproduce on Mac:

list(a = 1, b = 2)
#------
$a
[1] 1

$b
[1] 2

 R.version.string
#[1] "R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)"
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)


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David Winsemius
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