[R] Passing arguments from a function within another function

[Gabor Grothendieck]

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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