[R] Help on R functions

[vikrant]

Dear R Experts,
I have written a following function :-

myfunction<- function(servername,dbname,dbtablename){
library(RODBC)
channel <- odbcDriverConnect("driver=SQL Server;server=servername")
initdata<- sqlQuery(channel,paste("select * from  dbname ..  dbtablename"))
return(dim(initdata))
}
I have written this function which has input  parameters like servername
,dbname and dbtable to connect to Ms SQL server 2005 and get data from the
table.
Now when I run this function using the following command

myfunction("01wh155073","test_DB","test_vikrant")


The variable initdata should contain all the data. But it does not contain
any data and dim(initdata)) is NULL.

I dont know how to pass the strings as parameters  in the function. Do I
have done this correctly?

If I run the same commands directly from the command line I get the expected
data.

library(RODBC)
channel <- odbcDriverConnect("driver=SQL Server;server=01wh155073")
initdata<- sqlQuery(channel,paste("select * from  test_DB .. 
test_vikrant"))
dim(initdata)

Then the initdata contains the data in the table "test_vikrant". My question
is there a way to write above in a function which contains the above
parameters.
Please Help me...
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