[R] adding slashes in sql querys

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I think this is about RODBC, uncredited.

There is currently no way to do escapes here, and I am pretty sure that 
ODBC drivers do not support 'slash' as an escape (or did you mean 
backslash? I am still not sure that would work).

sqlSave() has fast=TRUE and fast=FALSE options, and it is worth trying 
both.  Since the default fast=TRUE passes character data as binary fields, 
I don't understand why there is a problem (there might be for fast=FALSE 
with single quotes in character fields).

Without any relevant details (OS, R version, packages used, package 
version, ODBC driver, DBMS) and any sort of example it is really hard to 
offer help: please DO study the R posting guide (and note also the comment 
about using a signature block).

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Laurent Valdes wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm doing a sqlSave() in R, to insert a big data frame of 10000 rows.
> However, there is problems, since several rows contains quotations marks,
> that can leave inserts buggy.
> I would like to find a way to add slashes in front of these quotation marks.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Laurent
>
>
>

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