[R] RODBC query on one line

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Not true: you have to submit the query as one element of a character
vector, not the same thing at all.  You *can* use paste() to assemble it.

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Mikkel Grum wrote:

> Dear R-helpers,
> 
> When I use sqlQuery in the package RODBC, I cannot
> break the line, but have to write the entire SQL Query
> on the same line.  Is this expected behaviour? It is
> definitely workable, but makes the queries a slightly
> difficult to read and edit.
> 
> I'm using R 1.9.1 and RODBC 1.0-4 on Windows Server
> 2003 and querying a Sybase database.

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