R help - Jul 2010 - odd listing in R object

Dear R Colleagues,

When I run ls() on an R object given to me by a colleague, one of the
objects is shown literally as:

"females[\"dp\"]"

I can neither look into it nor can I get rid of it
(rm("major[\"dp\"]").

Ideas or solutions?

Thanks,

Larry

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Your colleagues was careless with back quotes.  See
?'`'
for a discussion of non-syntactic names.  This next transcript shows how to
use the
back quote to create and then remove an object with a non-symantic name.


> ?which
> ?'`'
> `females[\"dp\"]` <- 123
> ls(pat="fe")
[1] "females[\"dp\"]"
> rm(`females[\"dp\"]`)
> ls(pat="fe")
character(0)
>
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