Yes, it does - thank you! The only thing I forgot (and it took me a while to find this out) was to separate the fields by semicolon, i.e. the correct command is:
odbcDriverConnect("driver=SQL Server; database=dataBaseName; wsid=myComputer; server=dataBaseServer; uid=moshe; pwd=moshe") --- Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.