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...umps core (the sql is all on one line): > d <- dbGetQuery(conn, "SELECT TO_CHAR(HybridDate, 'YYYY-MM-DD') FROM Hybridization WHERE ExperimentID=2717") Segmentation fault (core dumped) My current work around is to accept the Oracle default date format and then use R's strpdate to convert to a date format that I want. I don't like coding this way, however, as it relies on the Oracle date format remaining static; I prefer to code more 'defensively'. I assume this is a bug in DBI/ROracle processing of functions in the selected variables, but I don't know...