[R] Re: reproducible rodbc crash

Jack Tanner ihok at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 29 09:58:27 CEST 2004


Naturally, the problem has already been fixed. update.packages() has an 
upgrade to RODBC 1.1-2, which does not crash.

Huge thanks to Brian Ripley.

Jack Tanner wrote:
> On Windows XP, R 2.0.0.
> 
>  > library(RODBC)
>  > mydsn <- odbcDriverConnect("DSN=mydsn")
>  > odbcClose(mydsn)
>  > sqlQuery(mydsn, "select * from foo_t")
> 
> [boom, bam, burp, crash, wheeze]
> 
> I grant that an sqlQuery on a closed DSN is a stupid thing to do, but it 
> still should't crash, right?




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