[R] Passing argument to a function called within another function

[Aarti Dahiya]

#Test at command line
getQuery(name='John')

This should give the result- select * from table_name where name='John'
Instead, it gives- select * from table_name where  = ' name = 'John'

The reason is because in function call queryGenerator$generateQuery(passed) 
from within getQuery(), passed is a character vector so the function 
generateQuery() treats the whole thing as one argument value i.e. as 
args[[1]].

What can I do solve this problem?  Thanks.  I appreciate any help.


File QueryGenerator.R
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#Constructor for QueryGenerator
setConstructorS3("QueryGenerator", function()
{
	extend(Object(), "QueryGenerator")
})

# Called when print(object) or object$print is called
setMethodS3("as.character", "QueryGenerator", function(this)
{
      paste("This is a QueryGenerator object.")
})

# getData function generates the SQL query
setMethodS3("generateQuery", "QueryGenerator", function(this,...)
{
	args <- list(...)

	sql <- "select * from table_name where"

    	for(i in 1:length(args))
    	{
    		if(is.numeric(args[[i]]))
    	 	{
			sql = paste(sql, names(args[i]), "=", args[[i]], collapse = " ")
    	 	}

    	 	else if(is.character(args[[i]]))
    	 	{
	  		sql = paste(sql, names(args[i]), "=", sQuote(args[[i]]), collapse = " 
")
            }

		# If in the current iteration args is not the last argument
		# add "and" keyword
		if(!identical(i, length(args)))
		{
			if(identical(names(args[i]),names(args[i + 1])))
				sql = paste(sql, "or", collapse = " ")
			else
				sql = paste(sql, "and", collapse = " ")
		}

            cat("\nIntermediate Queries\n")
            cat(sql)
     }

     cat("\n\nFinal query\n")
     cat(sql)

     cat("\n")
     return(sql)
})

File getQuery.R
----------------------

getQuery <- function(...)
{

    args <- list(...)

    #Create the argument to be passed to generateQuery
    passed <- sub(",", "", paste(rbind(",", names(args), "=", sQuote(args)), 
collapse = " "))

    #Create the QueryGenerator Object
    queryGenerator <- QueryGenerator()

    #Call getData() of DataRetriever class.
    results <- queryGenerator$generateQuery(passed)

}