On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 10:25 -0400, Wensui Liu wrote: > In a mdb table, I have a text field with values of 1, 2, .... When I > use rodbc to read it into R, it becomes numeric. Is it a bug or > something?
I don't think it's a bug. This behavior is documented. See ?sqlQuery. Try the as.is=T argument. Jerome -- Jerome Asselin, M.Sc., Agent de recherche, RHCE CHUM -- Centre de recherche 3875 rue St-Urbain, 3e etage // Montreal QC H2W 1V1 Tel.: 514-890-8000 Poste 15914; Fax: 514-412-7106 ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
