This is an ODBC issue, not an R issue. Use a command-line ODBC client to find a suitable SQL invocation to retrieve the data, and run that via sqlQuery.
(It might be a quoting issue: Access is not using standard SQL.) On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Patrick Gonin wrote: > Dear R users, > > I am trying to connect an Access database. > The code I use is : > channel<-odbcConnectAccess("Base") > table.db<-sqlFetch(Base,"table",colnames=T) > > When I look at the table in R, the table imported lacks the first 41 > lines, and the column names are the values of the 42nd record. > > Any hints ? > > I am working on a WinXP pro 5.1 box, R 2.5-0 compiled from source using MINGW > and R tools. > I searched R archives through Jonathan Baron site... > > Thank you very much for your help > > Dr P. Gonin > Institut Gustave Roussy > 94805 Villejuif > France > > > --------------------------------- > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.