Hi all,
I am encountering an RODBC problem in R 2.15.1 in windows 64 bit which I do not
encountered in the same set up in windows 32 bit (the latest binary version of
RODBC in both cases from the same depository gotten by
install.packages(RODBC), Oracle ODBC client software installed in 64 and 32
bit respectively)
1. The code looks like
library(RODBC)
credentials <- read.csv("~/credentials.csv", head=T, row.names=1)
db <- odbcConnect(dsn="DSN", uid=credentials["DSN", "username"],
pwd=credentials["DSN", "password"], rows_at_time=1024)
on which the odbcConnect call fails with the following error code
Error in nchar(uid) : 'nchar()' requires a character vector
(
credentials are processed correctly and credentials["DSN", "username"]
correctly returns by the way a factor
[1] _username_
Levels:
).
When I run the equivalent call with direct arguments
db <- odbcConnect("DSN", uid="_username_", pwd="_password_", rows_at_time=1024)
it works just fine. Furthermore both work just fine on windows 32 bit, or on
both systems when the colClasses = "character" option is used. Is this perhaps
a problem with RODBC in 64 bit when dealing with factors that is not a problem
in 32 bit?
2. Furthermore (and as reported in
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3407015/querying-oracle-db-from-revolution-r-using-rodbc),
there are issues with using sqlQuery without the option believeNRows=FALSE, as
RODBC seems to still have issues with signed vs. unsigned integer (or
sizeof(long) between 32 and 64 bit.
Any chance the problems have the same source in RODBC code and could be
addressed in the near future (after apparently years of making difficult the
transition to 64 bit for work with Oracle servers)? (is there an implicit
encouragement to use RJDBC when combining 64 bit R use and Oracle databases?)
Many thanks in advance for any guidance.
Ivan
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