Several of you have kindly sent me examples of bugs in RODBC, but none of them reproduce on my systems. I am fairly sure I know what is happening, and that it is client-specific. (Do empty strings get returned as "", NULL or skipped?) Also, empty character fields were getting mapped to NA. There's a comment in the code that fields need to set to a null string, and that was only being done for the first row. If my diagnosis is right, I have a fix (and have simpilfied the code a lot en route). http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RODBC/RODBC_0.7-2.tar.gz (source) http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RODBC/RODBC.zip (Windows) I'd be grateful for confirmation (or otherwise). BTW, although I have altered the code to compile under R-devel, it does not work correctly for me as yet.
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