Thank you! Duncan Murdoch schrieb: > On 1/8/2008 7:11 AM, Marcus Wurzer wrote: >> Using the package /RMySQL/ I have established a connection ('con1') >> to a MySQL-Database called 'mc'. >> This database contains a table called 'mc_2000' which has 200000 >> observations on several >> variables. One of these variables is called 'B5' (type 'double'). >> When I generate a numeric vector in R called 'B6' that has the same >> length as 'B5': How can I replace the values of 'B5' with the values >> of 'B6'? I tried >> >> dbGetQuery(con1, >> "UPDATE mc_2000 SET B5 = B6", B6) >> >> but this doesn't work. The same applies to: >> >> dbGetQuery(con1, >> "REPLACE mc_2000(B5) VALUES(B6)", B6) >> >> Any help would be appreciated very much. > > I haven't used RMySQL specifically, but in general the DBI based > database packages don't handle parameters they way you want. You need > to construct an SQL query as a string (using paste(), etc.) and then > use dbGetQuery to send it to the database. > > However, constructing a query to do what you want is tricky. You need > to specify a key so it knows which entry of B6 goes with which entry > in the database, etc. It might be easiest to read the whole table > into memory using dbReadTable, modify it, and write it out with > dbWriteTable. > > Duncan Murdoch > >
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