Failure to connect to odbc database in R

Question

I\'ve been trying to connect my company\'s DMS to R using the odbcConnect command, but get the following message:

myConn <-odbcConnect(\"NZSQ         


        

Answer 1

I just spent days on this. If you are using a Microsoft Access database you have to use the full path to the database, it won't even find the file in the same folder. So from the above question,

myConn <-odbcConnect("NZSQL", uid="cejacobson", pwd="password")

Would need to be something like

myConn <-odbcConnect("c:\\NZSQL", uid="cejacobson", pwd="password")

Phil's link really helped: https://www.connectionstrings.com/