[R] Question on dbHasCompleted(...)

[Minghua Yao]

All,

In the following, when I just enter R from UNIX and make a connection to
Oracle database, dbHasCompleted(rs) is TRUE. This shouldn't have happened
since I haven't fetched any thing. Help will be appreciated.

-MY

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> library(ROracle)
> ora <- dbDriver("Oracle")
> channel <- dbConnect(ora, user = "scott", password="tiger",
dbname="myoracle")
> rs <- dbSendQuery(channel, "select * from USArrests")
> dbHasCompleted(rs)
[1] TRUE       # why ???????
>