[R] get("a[1]") : object 'a[1]' not found

[Timothy Bates]

In the help for get(), the following example is given:

a <- 1:4
assign("a[1]", 2)
a[1] == 2          #FALSE
get("a[1]") == 2   #TRUE

However, executing that last line for me gives

Error in get("a[1]") : object 'a[1]' not found