[R] assign a list using expression?

[Skotara]

Thank you Patrick and Gabor!
Sorry, I think I have not explainend it well.
The purpose is as follows:
    names <- letters[1:3]
    values <- data.frame(a = 1:3, b = 4:6, c = 7:9)
With more complicated objects similar to 'names' and 'values' I wrote 
the following line to assign the elements of the list:
    mycommand <- parse(text = paste(names, " = values[\"", names, "\"]", 
sep="") )
However,
    list(eval(mycommand))
does not do what I want.
whereas
    list(a = values["a"], b = values["b"], c = values["c"])
does.

I can not tell why...
I try to understand, what expression and eval do. I know that many times 
there are other ways to achieve the same goal.
So here, too. But I think there should be a reason why it does not work 
that way.

Best regards!
Nils