R help - Nov 2011 - dbWriteTable with field data type

Hello,

When I do:

dbWriteTable(con, "r.BOD", cbind(row_names = rownames(BOD), BOD))

...can I specify the data types such as varchar(12), float, double
precision, etc. for each of the fields/columns?

If not, what is the best way to create a table with specified field data
types (with the RpgSQL package/R)?

Regards,

Ben

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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ben quant <ccquant at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I do:
>
> dbWriteTable(con, "r.BOD", cbind(row_names = rownames(BOD), BOD))
>
> ...can I specify the data types such as varchar(12), float, double
> precision, etc. for each of the fields/columns?
>
> If not, what is the best way to create a table with specified field data
> types (with the RpgSQL package/R)?
>
dbWriteTable will set types based on the input data.frame classes but
if you don't like them then you can use the sql create table statement
to define a table layout and then use insert statements to insert the
data.

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