(sorry if a duplicate pops through ...) Jérôme Lemaître wrote: > Dear alls, > > Could someone tell me how to select a subset of string observations (e.g. > "females" in a sex column) with sqlQuery in the RODBC library? > > Indeed, I'm trying to select a subset of observations on my access database > with: > > female<-sqlQuery(mychannel,"SELECT Micromammiferes.sex > FROM Micromammiferes > WHERE (((Micromammiferes.sex)="females"));") > > The sql works well in access but in R, I keep getting: > > Error: syntax error.
Most computer software has problems with nested quote characters. Ie: > x = "SELECT Micromammiferes.sex FROM Micromammiferes WHERE (((Micromammiferes.sex)="females"));" also results in a syntax error (my mailer split the line). ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
