[R] non-interactive connection to SQL Server

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Moshe Olshansky wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am afraid that I have already asked this question in
> the past (or at least I knew an answer to it) but I am
> unable to do it now.
> I have an SQL Server data base. I used the GUI
> interface of odbcDriverConnect to create a .dsn file
> for this data base and every time I want to connect I
> invoke odbcDriverConnect() which opens GUI from which
> I choose my .dsn file and the connection is
> established.
> Now I want to do this automatically (without GUI) and
> all my attempts fail. If I remember correctly the dsn
> must be a string containing all the connection details
> but it does not work for me.

Clearly it does, as you did that via odbcDriverConnect.  Look at the 
object it returns: it contains the string it used.  You can use that 
directly.

>
> Could anybody help, please!
>
> Thank you!
> Moshe.
>
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