See the help page for odbcConnect. I have no experience with that ODBC driver, but a few contain errors and need believeNRows = FALSE.
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Scillieri, John wrote: > All, > > I'm trying to connect to a remote SAS server using SAS's 9.1 ODBC driver > and the RODBC package. I'm running R-2.6.1 on Win XP. I can successfully > connect to the database, but no matter which table I query, I get back > an empty table with only the column headers. For example: > > > sqlQuery(con, "select * from PRICES.DB_PRICES") > > [1] COMMOD_CURVE START_DATE PRICING_DATE PRICE > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > sqlTables also returns back an empty table: > > > sqlTables(con) > > [1] TABLE_QUALIFIER TABLE_OWNER TABLE_NAME TABLE_TYPE > REMARKS > <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > > And sqlFetch doesn't work either: > > > sqlFetch(con, "PRICES.DB_PRICES") > > Error in odbcTableExists(channel, sqtable) : > 'PRICES.DB_PRICES': table not found on channel That won't work: SQL tables cannot have periods in their names. > Are their other options I should be using with RODBC to pull the data? I > have tested the connection in MS Access and can successfully display > data (using File->Get External Data...->ODBC->...) > > Any suggestions would be great, thanks in advance for your help. > > John Scillieri >>>> This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, > professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the > addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the information > in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the sender. CEG-IP2 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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@r-project.org 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.
