Dear all
I am trying to use the ODB package to connect to an libreoffice-odb database.
The libreoffice package is german, thus, decimal separator is a comma. However,
I can open the database and upload a it without error,
library(ODB)
db <- odb.open("Test.odb")
but a soon as the "odb.open" command is executed, the decimal separator in R
is changed to comma.
Before loading the database:
> a <- 10.1
> a
[1] 10.1
After loading the database
> db <- odb.open("Buchhaltung.odb")
> a
[1] 10,1
but assigning a numeric value to a variable still requires a dot:
> a <- 5,1
Error: Unexpected ',' in "a <- 5,"
Futhermore, printed variables still use the comma as decimal separator:
> write.csv(a)
"","x"
"1",10,1
Since this leads to serious parsing errors when odb sets up sql-queries (eg
5,1 becomes 51), I need to get rid of that behaviour such that numeric values
are correctly displayed with a dot as a decimal separator.
Does anyone has an idea?
Thanks
Karl
Ps: The following does not work:
> a <- as.character(a)
> a
[1] "10,1"
> a <- sub(",",".",a)
> a
[1] "10.1"
> a <- as.numeric(a)
> a
[1] 10,1
>
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