All - I'm new to SQL and the RODBC package. I've read the documentation associated with the RODBC package, but I'm still having problems with my SQL statements; I think my syntax, particularly with respect to my WHERE statement, is off but I can't find any documentation as to why.
When I run a query from within the Access2007 database, it looks like this: SELECT tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit.* FROM tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit WHERE (((tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit.dataForm)="Oyster Transition Plan Site Mapping Detail")); After inserting that (verbatim) into my R code like this: testData = sqlQuery(db, SELECT tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit.* FROM tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit WHERE (((tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit.dataForm)="Oyster Transition Plan Site Mapping Detail"));) I get the following error message: Error in source(.trPaths[5], echo = TRUE, max.deparse.length = 150) : C:\Users\sranney\AppData\Roaming\Tinn-R\tmp\selection.r:2:32: unexpected symbol 1: db <<- odbcConnectAccess2007(paste(dbPath, dbName, sep = '')) 2: testData = sqlQuery(db, SELECT tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit. ^ Previous RODBC/SQL statements used by other coders at my firm have a single quotation mark around the SQL query, so I try that: testData = sqlQuery(db, 'SELECT tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit.* FROM tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit WHERE (((tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit.dataForm)="Oyster Transition Plan Site Mapping Detail"));') I get no error messages, but I when call for testData, I get the following: > testData [1] "07002 -3010 [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Too few parameters. Expected 1." [2] "[RODBC] ERROR: Could not SQLExecDirect 'SELECT tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit.*\nFROM tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit\nWHERE (((tblDataFieldRawSiteVisit.dataForm)=\"Oyster Transition Plan Site Mapping Detail\"));'" I can run SELECT FROM statements successfully. I cannot run SELECT FROM WHERE statements without running into some sort of error. Can anyone offer advice as to why I'm having an issue with the WHERE part of this SQL query? I have double checked spelling on my databases, columns, and values. Thank you - SR Steven H. Ranney ______________________________________________ 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.