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driver problem in RODBC

3 messages · Edgar Torres, Tom_Philippi at nps.gov

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Tom_Philippi at nps.gov
# 
This isn't exactly an ecological question, but something that can waste a
lot of ecologists' time getting it to work (it's already wasted a lot of
mine)...

Are you running 64-bit R?  If so, try the same call to
odbcConnectAccess2007() in 32-bit R.  There are quite a few "issues" with
64-bit ODBC in 64-bit win 7, especially if you have 32-bit Office
installed.  If you need to run things in 64-bit R, you can read files in
32-bit, save them with save() or save.image(), then start 64-bit R and use
load() to bring in the objects (.RData files are portable across OSes as
well as 32 v 64 bit architecture).

If you still get this error in 32-bit R, email me with the results of
sessionInfo() and the version numbers for your win 7 and MS Office and I'll
try to help further.


If the Access file was on a remote server, you would have to set up the
ODBC source in windows.  The trick is that in 64-bit Win 7, the regular
data sources approach (control panel, administrative tools, data sources)
uses the 64-bit ODBC drivers, which don't work for many combinations of
64-bit OS and other software.  In order to define a 32-bit ODBC data
source, you can run:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe
Note that you will have to run it with administrator privileges.  Then, you
can use (32-bit R)
mdb <- odbcConnect(handle) # handle is the name you specified for the odbc
source

Tom 2

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Hello

I am trying to connect to a database in Acces 2007. But it show an error
message telling me that there is a problem with the connection.
My computer has Windows 7 64-bits. How can I install a driver? Where can I
find it? and How can I pick one?
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