I have two variables, key and value, and I want to add them as a key/value pair to a list:

key = "width"
value = 32

mylist = list()
mylist$key = value

The result is this:

mylist
# $key
# [1] 32

But I would like this instead:

mylist
# $width
# [1] 32

How can I do this?

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