convert a vector to a list

Question

I have a vector like this

 c(\"1\", \"a\",\"b\")

and I\'d like to create this list

list(\"a\"=1,\"b\"=1)

is

Answer 1

Using as.list and setNames:

x = c("1", "a","b")
as.list(setNames(rep(as.numeric(x[1]), length(x) - 1), x[-1]))