?paste e.g.,
sql <- paste("select YPOS, XPOS, YEAR, MONTH, RANGE, APFEL,", "TEMPMIN, TEMPAVG, TEMPMAX, PRECIPITATION, SUNDURATION from DATA where YPOS=", ypos, " AND XPOS=", xpos, " AND MONTH BETWEEN 1 AND 12 AND RANGE = 1;", sep="") On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:26 PM, John Fitzgerald < john.fitzger...@internet.de> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am desperately looking for a method to interpolate strings within an SQL > statement as follows: > I get a lot of rows out of a database (in my example POSITION_to_ZIPCODE > Database with holds records for German ZIP Code <--> Gauss-Krueger > Coordinate System ) and want this to be selected and computed individually > row by row as follows: > > library(RODBC) > channel <- odbcConnect("database") > pos_to_zip <- sqlQuery(channel, "select YPOS, XPOS FROM > POSITION_to_ZIPCODE;") > my_row <- pos_to_zip[1,] # get the first element (change with next > ones afterwards) > ypos <-my_row[1] # get the first y-position xpos <-my_row[2] > # > get the first X-Position > > So far, so good: SQL Select works and everybody is fine, but this was just > the preparation for the next step: Select all data out of the database with > e.g. ypos = 1 and xpos = 182... > > rawdata <- sqlQuery(channel, "select YPOS, XPOS, YEAR, MONTH, RANGE, APFEL, > TEMPMIN, TEMPAVG, TEMPMAX, PRECIPITATION, SUNDURATION from DATA where > YPOS='ypos' AND XPOS='xpos' AND MONTH BETWEEN 1 AND 12 AND RANGE = 1;") > > The problem is that I want to use variables (xpos, ypos) to be replaced by > the numbers (much more of them) so the SQL String would be: > > rawdata <- sqlQuery(channel, "select YPOS, XPOS, YEAR, MONTH, RANGE, APFEL, > TEMPMIN, TEMPAVG, TEMPMAX, PRECIPITATION, SUNDURATION from DATA where > YPOS=1 > AND XPOS=182 AND MONTH BETWEEN 1 AND 12 AND RANGE = 1;") > > Since I can't use any $xpos oder $ypos (like in Perl) within R, I'm stuck. > I've tried some "xpos" and some 'ypos', some $xpos and some "$xpos" but > those would not work either. > > So how can I set and retrieve variables in an SQL String in R? > > > > Kind regards, > > John Fitzgerald > > ______________________________________________ > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.