Does the greater than sign in the isql.tcl command need to quoted in some way to protect it from being interpreted by the shell ? (That's just a guess. I don't understand why there's an R question here.)
- tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - (all the quotes in Julien's message below seem to have been trashed by switching from one encoding to another - sorry.) On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Julien Dinh wrote: > Hi All, > > I�m using system commands in R to send requests to my database. > > CMD=paste(�isql.tcl \� select xxxx from yyyyy where zzzzz = 501 \��) > Data=system(CMD,intern=T) > > This works perfectly fine, but if I want to be able to add dates > constraints: > In command line it would be > isql.tcl � select xxxx from yyyyy where zzzzz = 501 and date>�20021020� � > > Does somebody has an idea how to translate this into R code? > > Thank you for your time, > Julien Dinh ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
