R help - Mar 2009 - R crashes while appending to a created table from SQL Server

Folks,

The code below reliably crashes an R 2.8.1 session on XP when connected to 
an SQL Server 2005 database.  The problem arises when appending data using 
sqlSave() with rownames=FALSE to a table that had been previously created 
with rownames=TRUE.  Certainly it's daft to do this as a regular 
procedure, but it would be useful for R to catch the error in a more 
graceful manner.


require(RODBC)
lakes <- odbcConnect('Lakes',uid='cseelige')
ss <- data.frame('a'='1234','b'='5678',
c=9012, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

sqlDrop(lakes, 'foofooB')
sqlSave(lakes, ss, 'foofooB', append=TRUE)
sqlSave(lakes, ss, 'foofooB', append=TRUE)
sqlSave(lakes, ss, 'foofooB', append=TRUE, rownames=FALSE)

# That last sqlSave() produces an error, which seems to indicate that 
# the table is forever munged even though you sqlDrop() it:
#   Error in sqlSave(lakes, ss, "foofooB", append = TRUE, rownames = 
FALSE) : 
#     unable to append to table ?foofooB?

sqlDrop(lakes, 'foofooB')

sqlSave(lakes, ss, 'foofooB', append=TRUE)
sqlSave(lakes, ss, 'foofooB', append=TRUE, rownames=FALSE)

# That last line causes the crash.


-- 
Curt Seeliger, Data Ranger
Raytheon Information Services - Contractor to ORD
seeliger.curt@epa.gov
541/754-4638

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