[R] RMySQL NA/NULL value storage error

Chris Stubben stubben at lanl.gov
Fri Sep 28 17:42:44 CEST 2007



Adam Wilson-4 wrote:
> 
> I am running R 2.5.1, RMySQL 0.6 , and DBI 0.2-3 on Windows XP
> 
> Like others, I am having trouble with NA/Null value conversions between R
> and a MySQL database via DBI, but I could not find my exact problem in the
> archives.  Most of the time NA values in R get transferred correctly to
> the
> database and back again, unless (apparently) if they are in the last
> column
> of the table being saved.
> 

I have the R 2.5.0, RMySQL 0.6 , and DBI 0.2-3 on Linux and don't get this
problem.

What do you get running 

>  str(x)

>  dbGetQuery(test,"describe x")
   Field   Type Null Key Default Extra
 1    X1 double  YES        <NA>
 2    X2 double  YES        <NA>
 3    X3 double  YES        <NA>
 4    X4 double  YES        <NA>

>  dbGetInfo(test)$serverVersion
 [1] "5.0.41"


Chris


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