Call SQL function inside function R

Question

I am wondering if a function can be called SQLinside a function R?

Say, for example, that I have this dummy data and a function SQLwritten inPostgres 9.3

CREATE TABLE tbl (
   id VARCHAR(2) PRIMARY KEY
   ,name TEXT
   ,year_born NUMERIC
   ,nationality TEXT
);

INSERT INTO tbl(id, name, year_born, nationality)
VALUES ('A1','Bill',2001,'American')
      ,('B1','Anna',1997,'Swedish')
      ,('A2','Bill',1991,'American')
      ,('B2','Anna',2004,'Swedish')
      ,('B3','Anna',1989,'Swedish')
      ,('A3','Bill',1995,'American');


CREATE FUNCTION retrieve_data(TEXT) 
RETURNS TABLE ( id VARCHAR(2), name TEXT, year_born NUMERIC, nationality TEXT ) AS 
$func$
SELECT id, name, year_born, nationality
FROM tbl
WHERE name=$1 OR nationality=$1
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1
$func$ LANGUAGE sql

I can access this data and run the function in the environment Rthrough packages RPostgreSQLand sqldf, as shown below:

require(RPostgreSQL)
require(sqldf)

options(sqldf.RPostgreSQL.user = "****", 
        sqldf.RPostgreSQL.password = "****",
        sqldf.RPostgreSQL.dbname = "test_db",
        sqldf.RPostgreSQL.host = "localhost", 
        sqldf.RPostgreSQL.port = 5432)

sqldf("select * from retrieve_data('Bill')")

But is there a way to call the above function SQLin a function R, for example. like;

myfunc <- function(name) {
sqldf("select * from retrieve_data(name)")
}

myfunc('Bill')

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

UPDATE

Using the prefix $fnin the package sqldfas suggested by @G. Grothendieck

myfunc2 <- function(name){
   fn$sqldf("select * from retrieve_data('$name')")
}

Or replace the above optionswith the code below to match @ dickoa's suggested answer

require(RPostgreSQL)
drv <- dbDriver("PostgreSQL")
con <- dbConnect(drv,
                 user="****",
                 password="****",
                 dbname="test_db",
                 host="localhost",
                 port=5432)

Answer 1

shQuote sprintf, , .

library(sqldf)
library(RPostgreSQL)

options(sqldf.RPostgreSQL.user = "****",
        sqldf.RPostgreSQL.dbname = "****",
        sqldf.RPostgreSQL.host = "localhost",
        sqldf.RPostgreSQL.port = 5432)

myfunc <- function(name)
    sqldf(sprintf("select * from retrieve_data(%s)", shQuote(name)))

myfunc('Bill')
##   id name year_born nationality
## 1 A1 Bill      2001    American
## 2 A2 Bill      1991    American
## 3 A3 Bill      1995    American

,

drv <- dbDriver("PostgreSQL")
con <- dbConnect(drv, dbname = "tempdb")
myfunc2 <- function(name)
    dbGetQuery(con, "select * from retrieve_data($1)", name)

myfunc2("Bill")
##   id name year_born nationality
## 1 A1 Bill      2001    American
## 2 A2 Bill      1991    American
## 3 A3 Bill      1995    American