[R] dbWriteTable error message

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Henri-Paul Indiogine wrote:

> I am at loss of what is going on here ...
>
> I am trying to write to a SQLite database:
>
> con <- dbConnect(dbDriver("SQLite"), dbname="pres-docs.rqda")
>
> I have a data frame that is 889 rows by 7 columns.  The column number
> and types agree with the database table columns and column type.
>
> dbWriteTable(con, "fileAttr", DF.4, row.names=FALSE, overwrite=TRUE)
>
> Then I get the following error:
>
> [1] FALSE
> Warning message:
> In value[[3L]](cond) :
>  RAW() can only be applied to a 'raw', not a 'character'
>
> Where could I start looking?

For the record, this sort of message almost always indicates internal 
corruption of R objects, so run the example under valgrind.

Oh, you failed to tell us the 'at a minimum' information required by 
the posting guide, so we don't know if valgrind runs on your platform.

>
> Thanks,
> Henri-Paul
>
>
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