R help - Jun 2006 - Passing arguments from a function within another function

Hi all,

I have a function getSomeData() that is called from command line - 
getSomeData(id='1240'). The function getSomeData() calls another
function
getData that needs the exact same argument passed to getSomeData().  I am 
using the function call getData(paste(names(args[1]), "=", 
sQuote(args[[1]]))).  The argument passed is- id='1240'.

The problem is that in getData(), it treats the whole thing
"id='1240'" as
one arguments i.e. for getData args[[1]] is "id='1240'". 
Hence, I am unable
to extract the name id and the value of id separately.  Beacuse of this, I 
am not able to generate the SQL query select * from table where id =
'1240'.

Thank you.

Aarti

See:
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/06/29301.html

On 6/26/06, Aarti Dahiya <aarti_dahiya at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a function getSomeData() that is called from command line -
> getSomeData(id='1240'). The function getSomeData() calls another
function
> getData that needs the exact same argument passed to getSomeData().  I am
> using the function call getData(paste(names(args[1]), "=",
> sQuote(args[[1]]))).  The argument passed is- id='1240'.
>
> The problem is that in getData(), it treats the whole thing
"id='1240'" as
> one arguments i.e. for getData args[[1]] is "id='1240'". 
Hence, I am unable
> to extract the name id and the value of id separately.  Beacuse of this, I
> am not able to generate the SQL query select * from table where id =
'1240'.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Aarti
>
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