Thank you Pr Ripley, it worked well with a simple sqlQuery rather than a sqlFetch command:
I paste it here in case some other users encounter a similar problem:
table.db<-sqlQuery(channel,paste("select * from table"))

Dr Patrick Gonin
Institut Gustave Roussy
94800 Villejuif
France

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: This is an ODBC issue, not an R issue.  Use a command-line ODBC client to 
find a suitable SQL invocation to retrieve the data, and run that via
sqlQuery.

(It might be a quoting issue: Access is not using standard SQL.)


On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Patrick Gonin wrote:

> Dear R users,
>
> I am trying to connect an Access database.
> The code I use is :
> channel<-odbcConnectAccess("Base")
> table.db<-sqlFetch(Base,"table",colnames=T)
>
> When I look at the table in R, the table imported lacks the first 41 
> lines, and the column names are the values of the 42nd record.
>
> Any hints ?
>
> I am working on a WinXP pro 5.1 box, R 2.5-0 compiled from source using MINGW and R tools.
> I searched R archives through Jonathan Baron site...
>
> Thank you very much for your help
>
> Dr P. Gonin
> Institut Gustave Roussy
> 94805 Villejuif
> France
>
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