[R] Unwanted carriage returns storing dataframes with dbWriteTable

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Which package is this?  (Clearly DBI, not mentioned, but which backend, 
and what OS?  I was unaware that there was a DBI package that works with 
(Microsoft) SQL Server.)

Please note the 'at a minimum' information the R posting guide asked you 
for.

Such questions are perhaps best asked on R-sig-db, with the requested 
information and a complete reproducible example.

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Hansruedi Baetschmann wrote:

> If I save a dataframe with a character-typed last column to a relational 
> database with dbWriteTable, the  values in the last column of the resulting 
> table in the database will have a '\r' (carriage return) appended. If I read 
> back the dataframe with dbReadTable the last column in the resulting 
> dataframe has also '\r' appended (see protocol below). Setting or unsetting 
> sql-mode (in the SQL-Server Version 5.0) to or from 'NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPE' has 
> no effect on this behavour ? How can I avoid these unwanted '\r'-tail ?
>
> Hansruedi
>> df1
> a c
> a 1 x
> b 2 y
> c 3 z
> d 4 t
>> dbWriteTable(con,"df1",df1,row.names=FALSE)
> [1] TRUE
>> df1=dbReadTable(con,"df1")
>> df1
> a   c
> 1 1 x\r
> 2 2 y\r
> 3 3 z\r
> 4 4 t\r
>>
>
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