All, In the following, when I just enter R from UNIX and make a connection to Oracle database, dbHasCompleted(rs) is TRUE. This shouldn't have happened since I haven't fetched any thing. Help will be appreciated. -MY --------------------------------------------------------------------- MyUnixMachine% R R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team Version 1.7.0 (2003-04-16) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `license()' or `licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type `contributors()' for more information. Type `demo()' for some demos, `help()' for on-line help, or `help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help. Type `q()' to quit R.
library(ROracle)
ora <- dbDriver("Oracle")
channel <- dbConnect(ora, user = "scott", password="tiger",
dbname="myoracle")
rs <- dbSendQuery(channel, "select * from USArrests") dbHasCompleted(rs)
[1] TRUE # why ???????