[R] SAS ODBC

[Prof Brian Ripley]

See the help page for odbcConnect.  I have no experience with that ODBC 
driver, but a few contain errors and need believeNRows = FALSE.

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Scillieri, John wrote:

> All,
>
> I'm trying to connect to a remote SAS server using SAS's 9.1 ODBC driver
> and the RODBC package. I'm running R-2.6.1 on Win XP. I can successfully
> connect to the database, but no matter which table I query, I get back
> an empty table with only the column headers. For example:
>
> 	> sqlQuery(con, "select * from PRICES.DB_PRICES")
>
> 	[1] COMMOD_CURVE START_DATE   PRICING_DATE PRICE
> 	<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
>
> sqlTables also returns back an empty table:
>
> 	> sqlTables(con)
>
> 	[1] TABLE_QUALIFIER TABLE_OWNER     TABLE_NAME      TABLE_TYPE
> REMARKS
> 	<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
>
> And sqlFetch doesn't work either:
>
> 	> sqlFetch(con, "PRICES.DB_PRICES")
>
> 	Error in odbcTableExists(channel, sqtable) :
> 	  'PRICES.DB_PRICES': table not found on channel

That won't work: SQL tables cannot have periods in their names.


> Are their other options I should be using with RODBC to pull the data? I
> have tested the connection in MS Access and can successfully display
> data (using File->Get External Data...->ODBC->...)
>
> Any suggestions would be great, thanks in advance for your help.
>
> John Scillieri
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