Hello Eric, Following your suggestion, I modified the code as: summ <- function(Tabname){ query <- sprintf(" SELECT * FROM %s",Tabname) res <- dbGetQuery(con, query) view(dfSummary(res), file = "W:/project/_Joe.B/MSSQL/try/summarytools.Tabname.html") rm(res) }
for (i in dbtable$Tot_table) { Tabname <- as.character(sqldf(sprintf("SELECT Tot_table FROM dbtable", i))) summ(Tabname) } after submitted the work, I got the error message below: Error: nanodbc/nanodbc.cpp:1655: 42000: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'c'. [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server][SQL Server]Statement(s) could not be prepared. <SQL> ' SELECT * FROM c("BIODBX.MECCUNIQUE2", "BIODBX.QDATA_HTML_DUMMY", "BIODBX.SET_ITEMS", "BIODBX.SET_NAMES", "dbo.sysdiagrams", "GEMD.ASSAY_DEFINITIONS", "GEMD.ASSAY_DISCRETE_VALUES", "GEMD.ASSAY_QUESTIONS", "GEMD.ASSAY_RUNS", "GEMD.BIODBX_DATABASE_SEED", "GEMD.BIODBX_USER_SEEDS", "GEMD.BIODBX_USERS", "GEMD.DATA_ENTRY_PAGES", "GEMD.DISC_SESSION_QID", "GEMD.DISC_SESSION_STATUS", "GEMD.DISC_SESSION_TYPE", "GEMD.DISCREPANCIES", "GEMD.DISCREPANCY_QUERY_TEMP", "GEMD.DISCRETE_VALUES", "GEMD.ENTERED_DATA_ENTRY_PAGES", "GEMD.ENTRY_GROUPS", "GEMD.ExportSampleListNames", "GEMD.FORM_STATUS_BY_SUBJECT", "GEMD.GEMD_CODELIST_GROUPS", "GEMD.GEMD_CODELIST_VALUES", "GEMD.GEMD_LOT_DEFINITIONS", "GEMD.GEMD_SAMPLES", "GEMD.GEMD_STUDIES", "GEMD.MECCUNIQUE", "GEMD.MECCUNIQUE2", "GEMD.MISSING_DI One more question, in the code of "view(dfSummary(res), file = "W:/project/_Joe.B/MSSQL/try/summarytools.Tabname.html")", can Tabname part be replacted automatic also? Thank you, Kai On Friday, July 2, 2021, 12:06:12 PM PDT, Eric Berger <ericjber...@gmail.com> wrote: Modify the summ() function to start like this summ <- function(Tabname){ query <- sprintf("SELECT * FROM %s",Tabname) res <- dbGetQuery(con, query) etc HTH,Eric On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 9:39 PM Kai Yang via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: Hello List, The previous post look massy. I repost my question. Sorry, I need to generate summary report for many tables (>200 tables). For each table, I can use the script to generate report: res <- dbGetQuery(con, "SELECT * FROM BIODBX.MECCUNIQUE2") view(dfSummary(res), file = "W:/project/_Joe.B/MSSQL/try/summarytools.BIODBX.MECCUNIQUE2.html") rm(res) BIODBX.MECCUNIQUE2 is the name of table. I have all of tables' name in a data frame. So, I'm trying to write a function to do this: summ <- function(Tabname){ res <- dbGetQuery(con, "SELECT * FROM Tabname") view(dfSummary(res), file = "W:/project/_Joe.B/MSSQL/try/summarytools.Tabname.html") rm(res) } for (i in dbtable$Tot_table) { Tabname <- as.character(sqldf(sprintf("SELECT Tot_table FROM dbtable", i))) summ(Tabname) } 1. I created a function summ, the argument is Tabname. I put the Tabname in the function. I hope it can be replaced one by one 2. the table dbtable contents all tables' name (>200 rows), the field name is Tot_table 3. I want use "for" to establish a loop, which can automatic generate a summary report for each table but I got error message below: Error: nanodbc/nanodbc.cpp:1655: 42000: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'Tabname'. [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server][SQL Server]Statement(s) could not be prepared. <SQL> 'SELECT * FROM Tabname' 10. stop(structure(list(message = "nanodbc/nanodbc.cpp:1655: 42000: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'Tabname'. [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server][SQL Server]Statement(s) could not be prepared. \n<SQL> 'SELECT * FROM Tabname'", call = NULL, cppstack = NULL), class = c("odbc::odbc_error", "C++Error", "error", "condition"))) 9.new_result(connection@ptr, statement, immediate) 8.OdbcResult(connection = conn, statement = statement, params = params, immediate = immediate) 7..local(conn, statement, ...) 6.dbSendQuery(conn, statement, params = params, ...) 5.dbSendQuery(conn, statement, params = params, ...) 4..local(conn, statement, ...) 3.dbGetQuery(con, "SELECT * FROM Tabname") 2.dbGetQuery(con, "SELECT * FROM Tabname") 1.summ(Tabname) it seems the tables' name is not successfully pass into query. can someone give me an instruction for this? many thanks, Kai [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.