I have a list and need to assign a name to an element within that list that happens to contain brackets, but I need to do this without converting the name to a quoted string. For example:
try = list()
try[[1]] = list(beta[1,1]=1.74)
which would result in
> try
[[1]]
[[1]]$beta[1,1]
[1] 1.74
However, I can't figure out how to do this in R without converting the name to a quoted string
try[[1]] = list('beta[1,1]'=1.74)
which results in
> try
[[1]]
[[1]]$`beta[1,1]`
[1] 1.74
Any help would be appreciated. I hope what I'm trying to do is possible. Thanks in advance.