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Generate SQL INSERT statement

Usage

sqlForInsert(
  tablename,
  fields,
  sqlSource,
  sourceAreValues = !grepl(sqlSource, "^SELECT"),
  ignore = FALSE
)

Arguments

tablename

table name

fields

field names, separated by comma

sqlSource

value tupels of form (value1.1, value1.2, value1.3, ...) (value2.1, value2.2, value2.3, ...) ... or SQL SELECT statement providing these tupels

sourceAreValues

if TRUE, sqlSource is expected to be an SQL query providing data to be inserted -> no keyword VALUES in generated SQL code

ignore

if TRUE the keyword IGNORE is inserted between INSERT and INTO in the SQL statement -> no error will be given if data to insert already exists