I am trying to read table from a database and getting error:
Error in .valueClassTest(ans, "character", "dbListFields") :
invalid value from generic function ‘dbListFields’, class “numeric”, expected “character”
Here is my code:
library(RMySQL)
library(dbConnect)
mydb = dbConnect(MySQL(), user='user',
password='pwd', dbname='blank_copy',
host='IPaddress', port=portnumber)
dbListTables(mydb)
dbListFields(mydb, 'SELECT * FROM tablename')
I don't know why am getting such an error of class for this particular table.
Can anyone help me on this error?
Thanks you.
You need to pass a table name as the second argument for dbListFields, per the documentation.
So you should do something like this:
library(RMySQL)
library(dbConnect)
mydb = dbConnect(MySQL(), user='user',
password='pwd', dbname='blank_copy',
host='IPaddress', port=portnumber)
tables <- dbListTables(mydb)
#tables is a character vector, so you can just pass a subset of that
fields <- dbListFields(mydb, tables[1])
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I am trying to use the following function in R:
heritblup <- function(name) {
library(RMySQL)
library(DBI)
con <- dbConnect(RMySQL::MySQL(),
dbname ="mydab",
host = "localhost",
port = 3306,
user = "root",
password = "")
value1 <- 23;
rss<- paste0 ("INSERT INTO namestable
(myvalue, person)
VALUES ('$value1', '",name,"')")
rs <<- dbGetQuery (con, rss)
}
heritblup("Tommy")
But I keep getting this error:
Error in as.character.default()
: no method for coercing this S4 class to a vector Called from:
as.character.default()
I tried to change the paste function to this:
rss<- paste0 ("INSERT INTO namestable
(myvalue, person)
VALUES ($value1, ",name,")")
the error persists;
I have no idea whats wrong.
Please help
Couple of issues in code. I'm not sure if OP is attempting to insert records in database or fetch from database.
Assuming, based on query that he is expecting to insert data in database table.
The rule is that query should be prepared in R the way it will be executed in MySQL. Value replacement (if any) should be performed in R as MySQL engine will not have any idea about variables from R.
Hence, the query preparation steps should be done as:
rss <- sprintf("INSERT INTO namestable (myvalue, person) VALUES (%d, '%s')", value1, name)
# "INSERT INTO namestable (myvalue, person) VALUES (23, 'test')"
If data insert is goal then dbGetQuery is not right option per R documentation instead dbSendStatement() should be used for data manipulation. The reference from help suggest:
However, callers are strongly encouraged to use dbSendStatement() for
data manipulation statements.
Based on that query execution line should be:
rs <- dbSendStatement(con, rss)
ret_val <- dbGetRowsAffected(rs)
dbClearResult(rs)
dbDisconnect(con)
return(ret_val)
I have twelve MySQL database connections created using:
mydb1 = dbConnect(MySQL(), user='user', password=password, dbname='db',host='domain')
mydb2...
mydb3...
...
mydb12...
I have a script where I want to execute the same query on all 12 databases and loop through them. How do I pass the dbConnect objects successfully to a dbSendQuery?
items <- ls()[grep("mydb",ls())]
query <- dbSendQuery(items[1], "SELECT * FROM table")
gives me the error:
Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable) : unable to find an
inherited method for function ‘dbSendQuery’ for signature
‘"character", "character"’
You cannot pass the textual representation of a connection object to the database functions. Your call is analogous to dbSendQuery("mydb1", "select * from table"), which I'm guessing you would not have typed in literally.
Ultimately you want to deal with a list of connections, which you can form manually with
conns <- list(mydb1, mydb2, ...)
but if that is difficult or you want to be more programmatic about it, try
conns <- lapply(ls()[grep("mydb",ls())], get)
and then
results <- lapply(conns, function(con) dbSendQuery(con, "select * from ..."))
I am using RMySQL package to write (append) data in current table.
I am using R, version 3.3.2.
My code looks like this:
library(RMySQL)
df_final <- some_data
m<-dbDriver("MySQL")
mydb <- dbConnect(m, user='odvjet12_mislav',
password='my_pass',
host='91.234.46.219',
dbname='odvjet12_fina_pn')
dbWriteTable(mydb, value = df_final, name = "fina_pn", append = TRUE, row.names = FALSE)
This code works fine for some time, but in last ten days, it always return an error:
Error in .local(conn, statement, ...) :
could not run statement: The used command is not allowed with this MySQL version
I don't understand how it is possible for code to work for some time and now, it returns an error?
I kindly ask for feedback on this issue.
Best,
Mislav Šagovac
You could also use dbGetQuery from the RMySQL package and iterate over the rows, which was my solution when I reached a similar error for a dataframe I wanted to write to a MySQL DB:
mydb = dbConnect(MySQL(), user='user', password='password', dbname='databasename', host='hostname')
for(i in 1:nrow(df)){
dbGetQuery(mydb,paste0("INSERT INTO MYTABLE (COL1,COL2) VALUES(",df$col1[i],",",df$col2[i],")"))
}
I have a data frame containing columns 'Quarter' having values like "16/17 Q1", "16/17 Q2"... and 'Vendor' having values like "a", "b"... .
I am trying to write this data frame into database using
query <- paste("INSERT INTO cc_demo (Quarter,Vendor) VALUES(dd$FY_QUARTER,dd$VENDOR.x)")
but it is throwing error :
Error in .local(conn, statement, ...) :
could not run statement: Unknown column 'dd$FY_QUARTER' in 'field list'
I am new to Rmysql, Please provide me some solution to write entire dataframe?
To write a data frame to mySQL DB you need to:
Create a connection to your database, you need to specify:
MySQL connection
User
Password
Host
Database name
library("RMySQL")
connection <- dbConnect(MySQL(), user = 'root', password = 'password', host = 'localhost', dbname = 'TheDB')
Using the connection create a table and then export data to the database
dbWriteTable(connection, "testTable", testTable)
You can overwrite an existing table like this:
dbWriteTable(connection, "testTable", testTable_2, overwrite=TRUE)
I would advise against writing sql query when you can actually use very handy functions such as dbWriteTable from the RMySQL package. But for the sake of practice, below is an example of how you should go about writing the sql query that does multiple inserts for a MySQL database:
# Set up a data.frame
dd <- data.frame(Quarter = c("16/17 Q1", "16/17 Q2"), Vendors = c("a","b"))
# Begin the query
sql_qry <- "insert into cc_demo (Quarter,Vendor) VALUES"
# Finish it with
sql_qry <- paste0(sql_qry, paste(sprintf("('%s', '%s')", dd$Quarter, dd$Vendors), collapse = ","))
You should get:
"insert into cc_demo (Quarter,Vendor) VALUES('16/17 Q1', 'a'),('16/17 Q2', 'b')"
You can provide this query to your database connection in order to run it.
I hope this helps.
I am trying to fetch symbols from a MySQL db using getSymbols, however the following code
library(blotter)
library(DBI)
library(RMySQL)
setDefaults(getSymbols.MySQL,user="****", password="****", dbname="quantmoddb")
currency("USD")
stock("myspy",currency="USD",multiplier=1)
getSymbols("myspy",src="MySQL")
throws
Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable) :
unable to find an inherited method for function ‘dbConnect’ for signature ‘"character"’
I am pretty sure the db is set up correctly as the following code runs fine and returns the dataset as expected.
con <- dbConnect(RMySQL::MySQL(),user="****",password="****", dbname="quantmoddb",
host="localhost", port=3306)
db.Symbols <- DBI::dbListTables(con)
query <- paste("SELECT * from myspy ORDER BY date")
rs <- DBI::dbSendQuery(con, query)
fr <- DBI::fetch(rs, n=-1)
Any help is greatly appreciated!
The "character" method for dbConnect was removed in the 0.10 release of RMySQL. I'm not sure whether or not this was intentional. It was not mentioned in the release notes.