On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Moshe Olshansky wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am afraid that I have already asked this question in > the past (or at least I knew an answer to it) but I am > unable to do it now. > I have an SQL Server data base. I used the GUI > interface of odbcDriverConnect to create a .dsn file > for this data base and every time I want to connect I > invoke odbcDriverConnect() which opens GUI from which > I choose my .dsn file and the connection is > established. > Now I want to do this automatically (without GUI) and > all my attempts fail. If I remember correctly the dsn > must be a string containing all the connection details > but it does not work for me.
Clearly it does, as you did that via odbcDriverConnect. Look at the object it returns: it contains the string it used. You can use that directly. > > Could anybody help, please! > > Thank you! > Moshe. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- 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.
