Dear R help, I've attach a dbf file (and my prog. below) from which I did not succeed in geting the right values for my variable "densite"... using RODBC. It returns "10" instead of "100" , without error messages !!! is it a bug with RODBC ? I've succeed in geting the right values using the package foreign.... As I'm relatively new with R, I would appreciate to kown if it is my use of RODBC that is wrong! (but I could not find where is the mistake...) Thank you in advance Jean-Pierre =======================library(RODBC) channel<- odbcConnectDbase("D:/R_work/*.dbf") a = sqlFetch(channel,"gb_10_100") library(foreign) b <- read.dbf(paste("D:/R_work/", "gb_10_100",".dbf",sep="")) table (a$densite); table(b$densite)