[R] Problem with sqlSave

[Karl Ove Hufthammer]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:07:52 -0800 (PST) anna_l <lippelanna21
@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, the sqlSave function is used in order to write a dataframe on excel.
> This function creates worksheets using the attribute tablename and writes
> the data.frame in it. What I want to do is to create this data.frame but
> being able in case this worksheet already exists to delete the former datas
> and write the new ones in it. I used the safer and append attributes. When
> you set safer to false, from what I understood, it should delete the former
> datas. Then what I did is setting safer as false and append as true so it
> can append to the empty dataframe the new dataframe but it didn?t work.

Your question doesn't make sense. If you want to delete the older data, 
you should *not* use append = TRUE, since that is used only in the case 
that you want to append the new data to the old date. Since you *don't* 
want to retain the old data, why do you set append = TRUE?

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Karl Ove Hufthammer