[R] changing a list element's name during execution in lapply - possible?

[Mark Heckmann]

Happy New Year, all!

I want to do calculations on each element of a list l, but i want the  
returned list element to be named differently after the calculation.
Is it possible to do the renaming somehow within the lapply call?

	l <- list(a=NA, b=NA)
	lapply(l, function(x) {names(x) <- "new name";  return(x) })

This does not work, any ideas?
TIA

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