similar to: Import data from Access

Hello everybody, I have tried to connect to external databases (specifically, to a MS Access database in my computer) from R using the RODBC package. Unfortunatelly I haven't been able to do it, even if I 'followed' the instructions in the manual. COuld someone please help me? I have a MS Access database in my computer and I went to the control panel in order to create a DSN file

Hi all, I'm trying to import Microsoft Access data into R. It looks like I'm supposed to use the ROBC package, and this works fine with old Access files (those with an .mdb extension). However, lovely Microsoft must constantly update their software. Modern Access files have an .ACCDB extension. I cannot seem to coerce R to import data from such a file. Any advice? I've been using

Hi, I'm trying to use RODBC without having to set up a DSN, using hte direct connection string in odbcDriverConnect. My connection attempt looks something like: > odbcDriverConnect(connection = "SERVER=localhost;DRIVER={/usr/lib/odbc/libmyodbc.so};DATABASE=myDB;UID=reader;PASSWORD=insecure;") And this returns the message: Warning messages: 1: In odbcDriverConnect(connection =

Hola a todos, estoy intentendo cargar unos datos contenidos en una tabla de ACCESS, por lo que ejecuto los siguientes comandos dir<-"C:/Users/D/Desktop/" library(RODBC) cn<-odbcConnectAccess(paste(dir1,"datos.mdb",sep="")) pero me da el siguiente error Warning messages: 1: In odbcDriverConnect(con, ...) : [RODBC] ERROR: state IM002, code 0, message

Hi. I am connecting from Console to SQL Server with ruby on rails on windows XP but while executing the following code, only the coloured code is executing, i want the exact procedure, how to connect from database step by step procedure.. require "dbi" begin # connect to the SQL server dbh = DBI.connect("DBI:ODBC:TESTDB:localhost", "testuser",

I have probably an old question. I have R.3.0.1 installed in 64 bit windows 7. The odbcConnectExcel in RODBC library does not work. Tried odbcConnectExcel2007 still does not work. Any ideas. Thanks Melissa<-sqlFetch(odbcConnectExcel2007("F:\\Cotton2012\\validation.xlsx"),sqtable = "Sheet3", + na.strings = "NA", as.is = TRUE) Error in

Dear R-list, I am trying to import (all) frames from a Microsoft Access database as individual data frames in a fancy loop, but I'm having troubles figuring out how to use the 'sqlFetch' from the RODBS package in a loop (mostly because I can't figure out how to loop over elements (I came from stata) I would very much appreciate if anyone on the list could help me solve this

Hi All, Can anyone please suggest me from where should I start to learn about 'how to connect to access db' ? How if someone has some written code and I can go over that to understand and make necessary changes... any help would be highly appreciated, -- Xin Ge. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi all, This is a potentially very stupid question about MySQL <-> R interaction, but I have not been able to solve it. I'm just trying to connect R to my MySQL databse, and gets this: > library(RMySQL) Loading required package: methods > m <- dbDriver("MySQL") > con <- dbConnect(m,group="testdb") Process R segmentation fault at Wed Oct 16 07:04:30

Hi all, I am facing a problem while using rails "migrate" feature for creating tables in a database. Following are the details. I have 2 applications say "app1" & "app2". I want both of them to use same database say "testdb". For "app1", I create 3 models which in turn create 3 migration files with prefix, 001_, 002_ & 003_. Now I

SQldf with sqlite and H2 I have a large csv file (about 2GB) and wanted to import the file into R and do some filtering and analysis. Came across sqldf ( a great idea and product) and was trying to play around to see what would be the best method of doing this. csv file is comma delimited with some columns having comma inside the quoation like this "John, Doe". I tried this first

Hi, I have a data base in oracle and need to link R using ODBC. When i use the command odbcConnect a dsn is needed. I would like to create a dsn.Do you know how can i do it? Thank you. Margarida,Portugal

Hello, does anyone know how I would go about getting R to connect to OpenOffice's Base program (OOo's version of MS Access) such that I can retrieve data from the database and perform calculations and data analysis? I'm totally new to R and Base and I've looked at some documentation, but found only examples for R connecting to PostgreSQL and MySQL, but nothing for OOo's Base

Hi I just started with RMySQL. I have a database with roughly 12 millions rows/records and 8 columns/fields. From all 12 millions of records I want to import 3 fields only. The fields are specified as:id int(11), group char(15), measurement float(4,2). Why does this take > 1G RAM? I run R on suse linux, with 1G RAM and with the code below it even fills the whole 1G of swap. I just

Dear R-users, I am working with R version 2.10.1 and package RODBC Version: 1.3-2 under windows. Say I have a table "testtable" (in an Access data base) with 3 columns and 1 row that looks like this: X Y Z 0012345 42 42,1 The columns are of these types: X - character, Y - Long Integer, Z - Decimal. I use RODBC to get these data into R: > library(RODBC) >

Hola a tod en s, Tengo un problema a la hora de conectar una base de datos (*.mdb) de Access a RStudio utilizando windows 64-bit. Con el paquete RODBC utilizo el siguiente script que devuelve el error que indico: mdbConnect <- odbcConnectAccess("C:/Users/database.mdb") Error in odbcConnectAccess("C:/Users/Isa/FPI-AZTI/JUVENA/Databases/MEGASCOPE_JUVENA2014.mdb") :

Hi all, I am very new to R and I'm trying to import data from Microsoft Access. So far, I've managed to do so successfully using the following code: testdb <- file.path("c:\Databse.accdb") channel2 <- odbcConnectAccess2007(testdb) data.table <- sqlFetch(channel2,"data") This successfully imports a table(?) called "data.table". But when I try to

Hi, useR- I am connecting to Oracle database using RODBC, but keep getting this error message: > library(RODBC) > channel <- odbcConnect(dsn="abc", uid="abc", pwd="abc", case='oracle') Warning in odbcDriverConnect(st, ...) : [RODBC] ERROR: state IM002, code 0, message [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default

Hello Everyone,   I'm still quite new to R and am having trouble reading SQL Server Tables using RODBC. I've looked though the RODBC documentation as well as material I found online and in the book "Data Manipulation with R," but I just can't quite seem to get things to work.   Right now, I have code that looks something like:   channel <- odbcDriverConnect

Hello, I'm using R 2.2.0 on a Mac and attempting to use the RODBC package to connect to a PostgreSQL server on the local network. I can't tell whether my problem is in R, or in ODBC setup. I got drivers from OpenLink, created a dsn and tested it using the iODBC application. then I load the RODBC package, use this code and get the following error. I tried with both the