Pass R variable to RODBC's sqlQuery with multiple entries?

Question

I\'m in the process of learning R, to wave SAS goodbye, I\'m still new to this and I somehow have difficulties finding exactly what I\'m looking for.

But for this sp

Answer 1

Look into the collapse argument in the paste() documentation. Try replacing b with paste(b, collapse = ", "), as shown below.

Edit As Joshua points out, sqlQuery returns a data.frame, not a vector. So, instead of paste(b, collapse = ", "), you could use paste(b[[1]], collapse = ", ").

library(RODBC)
channel <- odbcConnect("test")
b <- sqlQuery(channel,
  "select top 1 Noinscr
   FROM table
   where PrixVente > 100
   order by datevente desc")

sqlQuery(channel,
   ## note paste(b[[1]], collapse = ", ") in line below
   paste("insert into TestTable (UniqueID) Values (", paste(b[[1]], collapse = ", "),")", sep = "")