Please could you write an example of this command: table.db<-sqlQuery(channel,paste("select * from table")) With real names of .mdb file and table? Thanks
Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Gonin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Prof Brian Ripley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [R] RODBC Access > Thank you Pr Ripley, it worked well with a simple sqlQuery rather than a > sqlFetch command: > I paste it here in case some other users encounter a similar problem: > table.db<-sqlQuery(channel,paste("select * from table")) > > Dr Patrick Gonin > Institut Gustave Roussy > 94800 Villejuif > France > > Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 > > > > --------------------------------- > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.