Bug: R Code Generation Does Not Quote Parameters with Special Characters (e.g., `codes[]`)

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Issue type
Bug
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Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
tooling

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Start by running the R fixture at src/targets/r/httr/fixtures/nested.r and inspect the R target code that generates its queryString list. Confirm the failure with keys such as foo[bar] or demo-param; done means the generated snippet uses valid quoted names and executes successfully in R.

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Description

When using the library to convert an HTTP request into an R code snippet, parameters with special characters (such as codes[] or demo-param) are not being quoted correctly in the generated R code. This causes an error in R because such parameters are not valid without quotes.

In R, certain special characters like [], -, and others are not valid in unquoted object names. As a result, the generated R code fails to execute properly when using such parameters.

I also saw a test case at "https://github.com/Kong/httpsnippet/blob/master/src/targets/r/httr/fixtures/nested.r" which doesn't run in R,
it gives following error

Error: unexpected '=' in:
"queryString <- list(
  foo[bar] ="
Execution halted

Instead it should be like this to run correctly and avoid any special character issues.

queryString <- list(
  `foo[bar]` = "baz,zap",
  `fiz` = "buz"
)
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