tried as.is ,gives an error,

[1] "01000 10054 [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server
Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionWrite (send())."
[2] "[RODBC] ERROR: Could not SQLExecDirect 'select UNIT_ID from UNITS
where (UNIT_TYPE='1X1' and COMMUNITY='SAN1193')'"


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:21 PM, andrija djurovic <djandrija@gmail.com>wrote:

> ?sqlQuery
> as.is - argument
> Andrija
> On Jun 7, 2013 9:10 PM, "Sneha Bishnoi" <sneha.bishnoi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey all!
>>
>> I am trying to select a bunch of id's  (data type -character) from a table
>> and store them in a variable in R
>> But when i do this, it automatically truncates the leading zero's in id's
>> even though they are of character type.
>>
>> code is :-
>>
>> >myconn<-odbcConnect("testdata")
>> >sql.select<-paste("select UNIT_ID from UNITS where (UNIT_TYPE='",unit,"'
>> and COMMUNITY='",property,"')",sep="")
>> > unit_ids<-sqlQuery(myconn,sql.select)
>> >print(unit_ids)
>> is there anyway i can retain the UNIT_ID's as they are.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Sneha
>>
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