Hi Vishal,
Vishal Belsare wrote:
> Can someone throw light on the following problem I am having with RODBC?
> There's an Excel file I am trying to read from, it has one sheet named
> 'nameclass'.
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
>
>
> Vishal Belsare
>
>
>> library(RODBC)
>> con = odbcConnectExcel(file.choose())
>> tbls <- sqlTables(con)
>> tbls
> TABLE_CAT TABLE_SCHEM TABLE_NAME TABLE_TYPE REMARKS
> 1 T:\\data\\in\\nameclass <NA> nameclass$ SYSTEM TABLE <NA>
>
>> qry = paste("SELECT * FROM '",tbls$TABLE_NAME[1],"'",sep="")
>> result = sqlQuery(con,qry)
>> result
> [1] "[RODBC] ERROR: Could not SQLExecDirect"
>
> [2] "42000 -3506 [Microsoft][ODBC Excel Driver] Syntax error in FROM
> clause."
You want your table name to be wrapped in []. In this case the query
should be
SELECT * FROM [nameclass$]
Best,
Jim
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