[R] RODBC problem

[Jerome Asselin]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 10:25 -0400, Wensui Liu wrote:
> In a mdb table, I have a text field with values of 1, 2, .... When I
> use rodbc to read it into R, it becomes numeric. Is it a bug or
> something?

I don't think it's a bug. This behavior is documented.

See ?sqlQuery. Try the as.is=T argument.

Jerome

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