Connect to an INBO database — connect_inbo_dbase • inbodb

Connects to an INBO database by simply providing the database's name as an argument. The function can only be used from within the INBO network.

Usage

connect_inbo_dbase(database_name, timeout = 2, autoconvert_utf8 = deprecated())

Arguments

database_name: char Name of the INBO database you want to connect
timeout: Time in seconds to timeout the connection attempt. Setting a timeout of Inf or NA indicates no timeout. Defaults to 2 seconds.
autoconvert_utf8: this argument is not needed any more thanks to better encoding in R for Windows and is therefore deprecated, do not use it any more

Value

odbc connection

Details

For more information, refer to this tutorial.

See also

Other connection: dbDisconnect,OdbcConnection-method, dbFetch,OdbcResult-method

Author

Stijn Van Hoey stijnvanhoey@gmail.com

Els Lommelen els.lommelen@inbo.be

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
connection <- connect_inbo_dbase("D0152_00_Flora")
connection <- connect_inbo_dbase("W0003_00_Lims")
} # }