Another way: cat("Station number?") flush.console() sn <- scan(quiet=TRUE,n=1) sqlQuery(conn, paste("select to_char(lsd,'yyyy-mm') as yr,ttl_mo_prcp from mo_rains where stn_num=",sn,sep="")) Bart -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/sql-query-variable-tp1558189p1558504.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.