On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Baize, Harold wrote: > Tudor Bodea asked: > >> In this context, I try to get all the records for which market is atl-bos, >> competitor is delta and dd is 2007-11-20 (first record above). To do this I >> used > >>> # channel <- odbcConnectAccess("test.mdb") >>> res <- sqlQuery(channel, "select * from test_table where market = 'atl-bos' >>> and competitor = 'delta' and dd = 2007-11-20") > >> Does any of you know what it is going on? > > Try this: > > res <- sqlQuery(channel, "select * from test_table > where market = 'atl-bos'and competitor = 'delta' and dd = {d '2007-11-20'}") > > Microsoft variant of SQL has an odd date syntax. I tried a dozen things before > I found what worked.
You could have asked RODBC: sqlTypeInfo() tells you what quote pairs to use with each type for the current DBMS. -- 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 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.