I agree that it is weird, but I don't see that it is easy to coerce a
list to character of the same structure. In my example (missing the
trailing parenthesis, sorry...) the input is a length two list and the
output is a length two character vector, so in the general case the
rationale seems to be
Thanks Ege -
That narrows it down, ... but it's still weird.
My issue is that I don't consider "c(\"xyz\", \"uvw\")" to be a valid character
representation of a list. c() is a function, so "c(\"xyz\", \"uvw\")" is a
string representation of a function call that could be eval(parse(...))'ed
I think `paste()` just calls `as.character()` on each input argument
and then collapses things afterwards. Calling `as.character()` on the
first input argument generates exactly the output you show (and didn't
expect) and there is nothing to collapse. So changing `collapse = ""`
to anything else
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