I have been avoiding the issue of understanding this problem for years, but I am getting to a experience level where I need to be able to write something like this and make it work. I think I have been told it has to do with evaluation and scope.

```
   ICD10 <- paste("^", c("DF17", "DZ720", paste("DJ", seq(40,44,1), sep = ""), "D716"), sep ="")
  ICD8 <- c()
  ATC <- c("^R03", "^N07BA")
 variableName <- c("smokingMarker")

VariableDefinor <- list( variableName = 
                list(ICD10 = ICD10, 
                      ICD8 = ICD8, 
                      ATC = ATC) 
)

```

Basicly the above code runs and creates a list called VariableDefinor. But the list inside has the name `variableName` rather than `"smokingMarker"`.
I think I can see what goes wrong, but I can't figure out how to fix this. I have looked into functions like `paste` `do.call` and `as.name` but I can't figure it out. It seems like there is something really basic that I just don't understand. I would greatly appreciate both help in solving this, and some reference to where I can learn about what it is I am not getting.