How to let identical ignore attribute/names?

Question

> str(a)
 Named int [1:5] 0 0 0 0 0
 - attr(*, "names")= chr [1:5] "Var2" "Var3" "Var4" "Var5" ...
> str(b)
 Named int [1:5] 0 0 0 0 0
 - attr(*, "names")= chr [1:5] "Var1" "Var2" "Var3" "Var4" ...
> identical(a,b)
[1] FALSE

I realized that identical compare not only the vectors content, but the names as well.

How to avoid the names check without manually deleting them?

Answer 1

This gives the desired result:

> identical( unname(a), unname(b))
[1] TRUE

This gives a useful result but misleading information:

> mapply("==", a ,b)
Var2 Var3 Var4 Var5 Var6 
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE