On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Omar Lakkis wrote: > Using RODBC, when I select from a table strings (chars and varchars) > come as factors. What is the best way, speed wise, to convert these > columns back to strings (perhaps using as.character).
FAQ Q7.10, replacing "numeric" by "character". You do have control in RODBC, in fact: see ?sqlFetch. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
