[R] RODBC Bug?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 04:43:19 -0800 (PST)
> From: Samir Mishra <sqmishra at excite.com>
> 
> I'm not sure if this problem is repeatable or particular to my machine. 
> 
> The following works fine -
> > odbcConnect("demoteam", uid = "demo", pwd = "demo")
> 
> This causes R to crash -
> > oracle.info <- list(channel = "demoteam", uid = "demo", pwd = "demo")
> > demo.db.connect <- function(ora.info = oracle.info) {
> + 	channel <- odbcConnect(ora.info$channel, uid = ora.info$uid, 
> + 	pwd = ora.info$pwd)
> + 	if(channel == -1) stop("Connection Failure")
> + 	channel
> +}
> > #R shuts down as soon as I submit the next command
> > channel <- demo.db.connect()

It's very unlikely that we can debug this for you, especially as you
haven't told us what version you are using of anything.  In particular,
the problem may well be in your ODBC client library and not in R.

RODBC works well for me on both Windows and Linux, but I don't use
Oracle.

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