[R] RODBC: sqlFetch and its argument sqtable

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

It's not designed to work like that.

Note that RODBC is in Devel on CRAN and not currently maintained AFAIK.

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, RINNER Heinrich wrote:

> Calling function "sqlFetch" in library(RODBC) and specifying a character
> string as 2nd argument, I get an error I don't understand:
>
> library(RODBC)
> channel <- odbcConnect("mydatabase.mdb", case="msaccess")
> sqlFetch(channel, "mytable")
> # this works fine
> tabname <- "mytable"; sqlFetch(channel, tabname)
> # this gives an error:
> # Error in sqlFetch(channel, tabname) : tabname :table not found on channel
> 0
>
> Shouldn't the second way work as well, or if not, why not?

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