I'm trying to upload a dataframe to a SQL Server table, I tried breaking it down to a simple SQL query string..
library(RODBC)
con <- odbcDriverConnect("driver=SQL Server; server=database")
df <- data.frame(a=1:10, b=10:1, c=11:20)
values <- paste("(",df$a,",", df$b,",",df$c,")", sep="", collapse=",")
cmd <- paste("insert into MyTable values ", values)
result <- sqlQuery(con, cmd, as.is=TRUE)
..which seems to work but does not scale very well. Is there an easier way?
[edited] Perhaps pasting the names(df)
would solve the scaling problem:
values <- paste( " df[ , c(",
paste( names(df),collapse=",") ,
")] ", collapse="" )
values
#[1] " df[ , c( a,b,c )] "
You say your code is "working".. I would also have thought one would use sqlSave rather than sqlQuery if one wanted to "upload".
I would have guessed this would be more likely to do what you described:
sqlSave(con, df, tablename = "MyTable")