[R] RMySQL Append data.frame to table

[Orvalho Augusto]

May be because by default dbWriteTable has row.names = T.

So try with row.names = F.

Good Luck

Caveman


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Nathan S. Watson-Haigh
<nathan.watson-haigh at csiro.au> wrote:
> I have a data.frame obj with 5 columns whose colnames match the fields in my
> "contact" table. The only other field my MySQL table has is an id field
> which is the PK and is set to auto increment.
>
> I'd like to load this data.frame using something like:
> dbWriteTable(con, "contact", dat, append=TRUE)
>
> However, I get this error:
> Error in mysqlExecStatement(conn, statement, ...) :
>  RS-DBI driver: (could not run statement: Unknown column 'row_names' in
> 'field list')
> [1] FALSE
> Warning message:
> In mysqlWriteTable(conn, name, value, ...) : could not load data into table
>
> Can anyone shed light on this error, or how I might bulk load this data
> using RMySQL?
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
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