[Rd] double bracket stripping names

[Patrick Burns]

Is it on purpose that `[[` strips the
names when used on an atomic vector?

 > c(a=1, b=2)[1]
a
1
 > c(a=1, b=2)[[1]]
[1] 1


 > sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2013-02-11 r61902)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base


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