The two statements below with 'names' are conceptually
the same. The second performs the desired operation
while the first does not.
> xx <- list(A=c(a=1, b=2))
> names(xx$A[1]) <- "changed"
> xx
$A
a b
1 2
> names(xx$A)[1] <- "changed"
> xx
$A
changed b
1 2
This is observed in 2.4.0 on Linux as well as 2.7.0 and
2.8.0 on Windows XP.
Patrick Burns
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