One way could be to first select only the unique ID's, sample this and then select only the relevant records:
strQuery = "SELECT ID from tblFoo;" IDs <- sqlQuery(channel, strQuery) sample.IDs <- sample(IDs,10) strQuery = paste("SELECT ID from tblFoo WHRE ID IN(", sample.IDs, ");") IDs <- sqlQuery(channel, strQuery) Bart christiaan pauw-2 wrote: > > Hi Everybody > > Is there a way in which one can use the RPostgreSQL package to take a > sample > from a table in Postgres database without having to read the whole table > into R > > regards > Christiaan > > [[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. > > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Sampling-from-a-Postgres-database-tp1014506p1014638.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.