R lists put name of first element in back-ticks [duplicate]

Answer 1

I noticed this as well, also happens in 3.5.1.

x <- list(a = 1, b = 2)

Also odd that you can still access the first element without the backticks

x
$`a`
[1] 1

$b
[1] 2

x$a
[1] 1