[R] Insert a recorde into a table using SQL

ronggui ronggui.huang at gmail.com
Mon May 12 13:23:10 CEST 2008


It works. Thanks very much.

Best

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Create an encoding function which replaces single quotes with
> two single quotes:
>
> # first string is a single character consisting of single quote
> # second string is two characters consisting of two single quotes
> enc <- function(x) gsub("'", "''", x)
> dbGetQuery(con,sprintf("insert into dd (txt) values ('%s')", enc(dd[2,1])))
>
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:54 AM, ronggui <ronggui.huang at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I want to insert a recorde into a SQLite table by dbGetQuery(), but
>> there is a problem when the value contains quotation mark.
>>
>> > dd<-data.frame(txt=c("having both ' and \" in character.","OK"))
>> > library(RSQLite)
>> Loading required package: DBI
>> > con<-dbConnect(dbDriver("SQLite"),":memory:")
>> > dbWriteTable(con,"dd",dd,over=T)
>> [1] TRUE
>> > dbGetQuery(con,sprintf("insert into dd (txt) values (\"%s\")",dd[2,1]))
>> NULL
>> > dbGetQuery(con,sprintf("insert into dd (txt) values (\"%s\")",dd[1,1]))
>> Error in sqliteExecStatement(con, statement, bind.data) :
>>  RS-DBI driver: (error in statement: unrecognized token: "")")
>>
>> How can I insert a (key, value) pair into a table by dbGetQuery?  Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> HUANG Ronggui, Wincent
>> Bachelor of Social Work, Fudan University, China
>> Master of sociology, Fudan University, China
>> Ph.D. Candidate, CityU of HK.
>>
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>



-- 
HUANG Ronggui, Wincent
Bachelor of Social Work, Fudan University, China
Master of sociology, Fudan University, China
Ph.D. Candidate, CityU of HK,
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/sa/psa_web2006/students/rdegree/huangronggui.html



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