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Message-ID: <BAY103-DAV172CD27B221B63BB3C544690700@phx.gbl>
Date: 2005-10-19T21:25:31Z
From: Jérôme Lemaître
Subject: sqlQuery and string selection

Dear alls,

Could someone tell me how to select a subset of string observations (e.g.
"females" in a sex column) with sqlQuery in the RODBC library?

Indeed, I'm trying to select a subset of observations on my access database
with:

female<-sqlQuery(mychannel,"SELECT Micromammiferes.sex
FROM Micromammiferes
WHERE (((Micromammiferes.sex)="females"));")

The sql works well in access but in R, I keep getting:

Error: syntax error.

Any help would be very appreciated,

Thanks a lot

J??r??me Lema??tre
Ph.D. student
D??partment of biology,
University Laval
Quebec, Canada