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Character columns in SQL Server with R 3.6 #283

Closed juliasilge closed 4 years ago

juliasilge commented 5 years ago

Issue Description and Expected Result

Since updating to R 3.6.0, columns of type character come through to R garbled.

I updated to R 3.6.0 last night and discovered that columns that are text/character no longer are brought into memory in R correctly. This looks like the same thing reported in #279 with dropping even-indexed characters.

I have not found any problems with other data types. I reinstalled all packages and drivers and still experience this problem.

Database

SQL Server 2017

Reproducible Example

Calling this reproducible is stretching it as this is me calling our real databases.

New version with 3.6.0:

library(DBI)

con <- dbConnect(odbc::odbc(),
                 driver = "libtdsodbc.so",
                 database = "StackOverflow",
                 uid = "STACKEXCHANGE\\jsilge",
                 pwd = "-------",
                 Server = "------",
                 port = 1433)

result <- dbSendQuery(con, "SELECT Title FROM Posts")

first_10 <- dbFetch(result, n = 10)

first_10
#>                                         Title
#> 1                         Wee hwee i h olDt o
#> 2                                        <NA>
#> 3                                        <NA>
#> 4                               CnetDcmlt obe
#> 5                                        <NA>
#> 6  Pretg it hl lmn nasltl oiindprn nItre xlrr
#> 7                                        <NA>
#> 8                         HwcnIcnetVsa #cd oC
#> 9                         Hwd  aclt oen' g nC
#> 10                                       <NA>

Created on 2019-06-13 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

Old version when I install back to 3.5.3:

library(DBI)

con <- dbConnect(odbc::odbc(),
                 driver = "libtdsodbc.so",
                 database = "StackOverflow",
                 uid = "STACKEXCHANGE\\jsilge",
                 pwd = "--------",
                 Server = "-------",
                 port = 1433)

result <- dbSendQuery(con, "SELECT Title FROM Posts")

first_10 <- dbFetch(result, n = 10)

first_10
#>                                                                                    Title
#> 1                                                 Where, oh where, did the Joel Data go?
#> 2                                                                                   <NA>
#> 3                                                                                   <NA>
#> 4                                                             Convert Decimal to Double?
#> 5                                                                                   <NA>
#> 6  Percentage width child element in absolutely positioned parent on Internet Explorer 7
#> 7                                                                                   <NA>
#> 8                                                How can I convert Visual J# code to C#?
#> 9                                                How do I calculate someone's age in C#?
#> 10                                                                                  <NA>

Created on 2019-06-13 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

Here is the session info for the R 3.6.0 version that has the problem.

Session Info ```r devtools::session_info() ─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── setting value version R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26) os macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 system x86_64, darwin15.6.0 ui RStudio language (EN) collate en_US.UTF-8 ctype en_US.UTF-8 tz America/Denver date 2019-06-13 ─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── package * version date lib source assertthat 0.2.1 2019-03-21 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) backports 1.1.4 2019-04-10 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) bit 1.1-14 2018-05-29 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) bit64 0.9-7 2017-05-08 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) blob 1.1.1 2018-03-25 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) callr 3.2.0 2019-03-15 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) cli 1.1.0 2019-03-19 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) clipr 0.6.0 2019-04-15 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) crayon 1.3.4 2017-09-16 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) curl 3.3 2019-01-10 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) DBI * 1.0.0 2018-05-02 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) dbplyr * 1.4.1 2019-06-05 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) desc 1.2.0 2018-05-01 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) devtools 2.0.2 2019-04-08 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) digest 0.6.19 2019-05-20 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) dplyr * 0.8.1 2019-05-14 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) evaluate 0.14 2019-05-28 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) fansi 0.4.0 2018-10-05 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) fs 1.3.1 2019-05-06 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) glue 1.3.1 2019-03-12 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) goodshirt 0.2.2 2019-06-13 [1] Github (adam-gruer/goodshirt@7253105) hms 0.4.2 2018-03-10 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) htmltools 0.3.6 2017-04-28 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) httr 1.4.0 2018-12-11 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) jsonlite 1.6 2018-12-07 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) keyring 1.1.0 2018-07-16 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) knitr 1.23 2019-05-18 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) magrittr 1.5 2014-11-22 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) memoise 1.1.0 2017-04-21 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) nycflights13 * 1.0.0 2018-06-26 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) odbc 1.1.6 2018-06-09 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) pillar 1.4.1 2019-05-28 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) pkgbuild 1.0.3 2019-03-20 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) pkgconfig 2.0.2 2018-08-16 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) pkgload 1.0.2 2018-10-29 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) prettyunits 1.0.2 2015-07-13 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) processx 3.3.1 2019-05-08 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) ps 1.3.0 2018-12-21 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) purrr 0.3.2 2019-03-15 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) R6 2.4.0 2019-02-14 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) Rcpp 1.0.1 2019-03-17 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) remotes 2.0.4 2019-04-10 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) reprex * 0.3.0 2019-05-16 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) rlang 0.3.4 2019-04-07 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) rmarkdown 1.13 2019-05-22 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) rprojroot 1.3-2 2018-01-03 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) rstudioapi 0.10 2019-03-19 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) sessioninfo 1.1.1 2018-11-05 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) sqlstackr * 0.6.2 2019-06-13 [1] Github (RPackages/sqlstackr@791c79d) stackutils 0.1.0 2019-06-13 [1] local testthat 2.1.1 2019-04-23 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) tibble 2.1.3 2019-06-06 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) tidyselect 0.2.5 2018-10-11 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) usethis 1.5.0 2019-04-07 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) utf8 1.1.4 2018-05-24 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) vctrs 0.1.0 2018-11-29 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) whisker 0.3-2 2013-04-28 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) withr 2.1.2 2018-03-15 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) xfun 0.7 2019-05-14 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) zeallot 0.1.0 2018-01-28 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) [1] /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/library ```
joranE commented 5 years ago

I have recently experienced the same problem with Oracle, upon upgrading to 3.6.0. The disturbing twist for me is that I'm seeing it only on one of the three Oracle db's I use. And I can confirm that downgrading to 3.5.3 also fixed it.

Another odd tidbit is that while character columns came over garbled, when I queried system info tables in Oracle, like all_tab_columns the character data came through just fine.

dxbhans commented 5 years ago

With R 3.6 and 3.6.1 I on macOS 10.12 and 10.14 using the FreeTDS and MS 017 driver connecting to MS SQL server 17 I experienced something similar calling the table list. Downgrade to 3.5.3 resolved as well. System info is correct, the listed tables are gibberish pure.

JakeHurlbut commented 5 years ago

I too have had this issue with MSSQL 2014 and R 3.6.x on macOS. My solution was, as everyone else has, rolling my installation back to R 3.5.3, but that won't be sustainable long-term. For me, the scrambled character columns were limited to unicode columns of type NVARCHAR, columns of type VARCHAR seemed unaffected in my (brief) testing.

jtelleriar commented 5 years ago

Is it an R Internals Bug or due to odbc library itself?

How could such issue be debugged?

shrektan commented 4 years ago

I just switched to R3.6.1 and I'm using MSSQLServer2014. It works good on my computer so far.

JakeHurlbut commented 4 years ago

Two things are included below:

  1. a SQL snippet to create a test database (RProblems) and table (ColumnTypeTesting), which is then populated with values. I ran this on my MSSQL 2014 Instance.
  2. a reprex of my query to the newly created RProblems database from R, including session info

The issue, for me at least, is with any column of type NVARCHAR. I should also mention that this bug completely breaks the connections tab in RStudio 1.2.5001 once I run the initial DBI::dbConnect


CREATE DATABASE RProblems;
GO

CREATE TABLE RProblems.dbo.ColumnTypeTesting
(
    nvarchar_text NVARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    varchar_text  VARCHAR(20)  NOT NULL
)
GO

INSERT INTO RProblems.dbo.ColumnTypeTesting (nvarchar_text, varchar_text)
VALUES ('Philadelphia', 'Philadelphia'),
       ('Boston', 'Boston'),
       ('New York', 'New York'),
       ('Buffalo', 'Buffalo'),
       ('Vancouver', 'Vancouver'),
       ('Toronto', 'Toronto'),
       ('Calgary', 'Calgary'),
       ('Seattle', 'Seattle')

library(DBI)

DATABASE = DBI::dbConnect(
  odbc::odbc(),
  driver = "ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server",
  port = 1433,
  server = 'XXXXXXX',
  database = 'RProblems',
  uid = 'XXXXXXX',
  pwd = 'XXXXXXX'
)

dbGetQuery(DATABASE, 'SELECT nvarchar_text, varchar_text FROM RProblems.dbo.ColumnTypeTesting')
#>   nvarchar_text varchar_text
#> 1        Piaepi Philadelphia
#> 2           Bso       Boston
#> 3          NwYr     New York
#> 4           Bfa      Buffalo
#> 5          Vnov    Vancouver
#> 6           Trn      Toronto
#> 7           Cla      Calgary
#> 8           Sat      Seattle

Created on 2019-10-22 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

Session info ``` r devtools::session_info() #> ─ Session info ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── #> setting value #> version R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05) #> os macOS Mojave 10.14.6 #> system x86_64, darwin15.6.0 #> ui X11 #> language (EN) #> collate en_US.UTF-8 #> ctype en_US.UTF-8 #> tz America/New_York #> date 2019-10-22 #> #> ─ Packages ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── #> package * version date lib source #> assertthat 0.2.1 2019-03-21 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> backports 1.1.5 2019-10-02 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> bit 1.1-14 2018-05-29 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> bit64 0.9-7 2017-05-08 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> blob 1.2.0 2019-07-09 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> callr 3.3.2 2019-09-22 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> cli 1.1.0 2019-03-19 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> crayon 1.3.4 2017-09-16 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> DBI * 1.0.0 2018-05-02 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> desc 1.2.0 2018-05-01 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> devtools 2.2.1 2019-09-24 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> digest 0.6.22 2019-10-21 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> ellipsis 0.3.0 2019-09-20 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> evaluate 0.14 2019-05-28 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> fs 1.3.1 2019-05-06 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> glue 1.3.1 2019-03-12 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> highr 0.8 2019-03-20 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> hms 0.5.1 2019-08-23 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> htmltools 0.4.0 2019-10-04 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> knitr 1.25 2019-09-18 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> magrittr 1.5 2014-11-22 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> memoise 1.1.0 2017-04-21 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> odbc 1.1.6 2018-06-09 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> pillar 1.4.2 2019-06-29 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> pkgbuild 1.0.6 2019-10-09 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> pkgconfig 2.0.3 2019-09-22 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> pkgload 1.0.2 2018-10-29 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> prettyunits 1.0.2 2015-07-13 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> processx 3.4.1 2019-07-18 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> ps 1.3.0 2018-12-21 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> R6 2.4.0 2019-02-14 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> Rcpp 1.0.2 2019-07-25 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> remotes 2.1.0 2019-06-24 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> rlang 0.4.0 2019-06-25 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> rmarkdown 1.16 2019-10-01 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> rprojroot 1.3-2 2018-01-03 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> sessioninfo 1.1.1 2018-11-05 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> stringi 1.4.3 2019-03-12 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> stringr 1.4.0 2019-02-10 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> testthat 2.2.1 2019-07-25 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> tibble 2.1.3 2019-06-06 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> usethis 1.5.1 2019-07-04 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> vctrs 0.2.0 2019-07-05 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> withr 2.1.2 2018-03-15 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> xfun 0.10 2019-10-01 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> yaml 2.2.0 2018-07-25 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> zeallot 0.1.0 2018-01-28 [2] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> #> [1] /Users/xxxxxxx/Library/R/3.6/library #> [2] /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/library ```
shrektan commented 4 years ago

Sorry, I still can't reproduce your results on my computer. Below is what I get. 

conn <- DBI::dbConnect(
  odbc::odbc(), server = "XXXX", database = "XXX", uid = "XXX", pwd = "XXX",
  encoding = "GB2312", timezone = "Asia/Shanghai", driver = "SQL Server", port = 1433
)
DBI::dbExecute(conn, "CREATE TABLE ColumnTypeTesting
(
    nvarchar_text NVARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    varchar_text  VARCHAR(20)  NOT NULL
)")
#> [1] 0
DBI::dbExecute(conn, "INSERT INTO ColumnTypeTesting (nvarchar_text, varchar_text)
VALUES ('Philadelphia', 'Philadelphia'),
               ('Boston', 'Boston'),
               ('New York', 'New York'),
               ('Buffalo', 'Buffalo'),
               ('Vancouver', 'Vancouver'),
               ('Toronto', 'Toronto'),
               ('Calgary', 'Calgary'),
               ('Seattle', 'Seattle')")
#> [1] 8
DBI::dbGetQuery(conn, "select nvarchar_text, varchar_text FROM ColumnTypeTesting")
#>   nvarchar_text varchar_text
#> 1  Philadelphia Philadelphia
#> 2        Boston       Boston
#> 3      New York     New York
#> 4       Buffalo      Buffalo
#> 5     Vancouver    Vancouver
#> 6       Toronto      Toronto
#> 7       Calgary      Calgary
#> 8       Seattle      Seattle
DBI::dbGetQuery(conn, "select @@VERSION")
#>                                                                                                                                                                                         
#> 1 Microsoft SQL Server 2014 - 12.0.2000.8 (X64) \n\tFeb 20 2014 20:04:26 \n\tCopyright (c) Microsoft Corporation\n\tEnterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.2 <X64> (Build 9200: )\n
DBI::dbExecute(conn, "drop table ColumnTypeTesting")
#> [1] 0
DBI::dbDisconnect(conn)

Created on 2019-10-23 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

Session info ``` r devtools::session_info() #> - Session info ---------------------------------------------------------- #> setting value #> version R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05) #> os Windows 7 x64 SP 1 #> system x86_64, mingw32 #> ui RTerm #> language en #> collate Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of China.936 #> ctype Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of China.936 #> tz Asia/Taipei #> date 2019-10-23 #> #> - Packages -------------------------------------------------------------- #> package * version date lib source #> assertthat 0.2.1 2019-03-21 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> backports 1.1.5 2019-10-02 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> bit 1.1-14 2018-05-29 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> bit64 0.9-7 2017-05-08 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> blob 1.2.0 2019-07-09 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> callr 3.3.2 2019-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> cli 1.1.0 2019-03-19 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> crayon 1.3.4 2017-09-16 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> DBI 1.0.0 2018-05-02 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> desc 1.2.0 2018-05-01 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> devtools 2.2.1 2019-09-24 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> digest 0.6.21 2019-09-20 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> ellipsis 0.3.0 2019-09-20 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> evaluate 0.14 2019-05-28 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> fs 1.3.1 2019-05-06 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> glue 1.3.1 2019-03-12 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> highr 0.8 2019-03-20 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> hms 0.5.1 2019-08-23 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> htmltools 0.4.0 2019-10-04 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> knitr 1.25 2019-09-18 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> magrittr 1.5 2014-11-22 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> memoise 1.1.0 2017-04-21 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> odbc 1.1.6 2018-06-09 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> pillar 1.4.2 2019-06-29 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> pkgbuild 1.0.6 2019-10-09 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> pkgconfig 2.0.3 2019-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> pkgload 1.0.2 2018-10-29 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> prettyunits 1.0.2 2015-07-13 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> processx 3.4.1 2019-07-18 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> ps 1.3.0 2018-12-21 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> R6 2.4.0 2019-02-14 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> Rcpp 1.0.2 2019-07-25 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> remotes 2.1.0 2019-06-24 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> rlang 0.4.0.9007 2019-10-21 [1] Github (r-lib/rlang@76b9cf7) #> rmarkdown 1.16 2019-10-01 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> rprojroot 1.3-2 2018-01-03 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> sessioninfo 1.1.1 2018-11-05 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> stringi 1.4.3 2019-03-12 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> stringr 1.4.0 2019-02-10 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> testthat 2.2.1.9002 2019-10-21 [1] local #> tibble 2.1.3 2019-06-06 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> usethis 1.5.1 2019-07-04 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> vctrs 0.2.0 2019-07-05 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> withr 2.1.2 2018-03-15 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> xfun 0.10 2019-10-01 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> yaml 2.2.0 2018-07-25 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0) #> zeallot 0.1.0 2018-01-28 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1) #> #> [1] D:/app/R_lib/3.6 #> [2] D:/app/R-3.6.1/library ```

Here's my idea:

  1. Have you tried this on R 3.6.1 and upgrade all the related packages to the latest CRAN version?
  2. Maybe it's related the OS, because currently I'm using Windows but I may try this on macOS later.
JakeHurlbut commented 4 years ago
  1. The example above was run using R 3.6.1 and I updated all packages prior to running the reprex code
  2. Here lies the issue, I think. Re-reading the thread I now realize it was never established that this might be a macOS only issue. I should’ve mentioned prior to now that a colleague of mine who is on Windows 10 and R 3.6.1 does not have this issue at all.
shrektan commented 4 years ago

@JakeHurlbut Thanks to your reprex I think we are closer to the root causes...

Yes, I can reproduce this on macOS, if I use the CRAN's binary version of the odbc package. More specifically, install odbc by executing command install.packages('odbc').

And no, it works fine regarding the code above, if I build the odbc package from source on my Mac. More specifically, both methods give the same correct output :

  1. Install the source package by install.packages("odbc", type = 'source').
  2. Or install the latest GitHub version by remotes::install_github('r-lib/odbc').

(Note, in order to successfully build compiled codes on macOS you may need to execute xcode-select --install in the terminal first)

So, I believe the cause of this error is somewhere in the toolchain that CRAN uses to build the binary version for macOS. Unfortunately, I can't help further because I don't know how CRAN manages to build the macOS' binary. @jimhester @krlmlr Any ideas?

In conclusion, the workaround to this issue is building the odbc package from the source. (Would be great if you can confirm this workaround works for you)

For the future investigators, I want to note that it's possible (with little effort) to have an MS SQL Server database inside of a docker container, making the reproduce of this issue and further investigation easily.

JakeHurlbut commented 4 years ago

@shrektan your theory about the CRAN binary might be correct, I just installed odbc from source using install.packages("odbc", type = 'source') and that fixed the issue for me on macOS.

joemienko commented 4 years ago

I was directed here on the basis of this Stack question.

@JakeHurlbut's solution worked for me with the caveat that I needed to reinstall xcode before I could install from source (xcode-select --install).

NOTE: The xcode issue appears to be unrelated to the odbc issue. Rather, I believe this is connected to my recent upgrade to Catalina.

jimhester commented 4 years ago

@JakeHurlbut thanks for the reproducible example and @shrektan thanks for your hypothesis of the cause, if this is an issue only with the mac binary this may also be the reason I could not reproduce the behavior when I tried on linux.

I will try to reproduce this myself today and verify it is due to the CRAN toolchain.

jimhester commented 4 years ago

I can reproduce the issue on macOS with the CRAN binaries, and re-compiling the odbc package from source fixes the issue. However I cannot re-create the broken binary even if I use the CRAN toolchain on my machine.

Hopefully the problem will resolve itself in the next odbc release, if not in the meantime please re-compile odbc yourself with

install.packages("odbc", type = "source")

jimhester commented 4 years ago

Multiple users and I have confirmed this is still an issue with the 1.2.0 CRAN binary. However I have an alternative hypothesis of the issue which should be fixed by c96be77.

I will release an updated version of odbc soon which should hopefully fix this. In the meantime you can workaround the issue by recompiling the package yourself.

RaSieb commented 1 year ago

FYI: I've encountered this issue again using R 4.3.1 on an intel Mac here in Sept. 2023. Installing odbc from source did not help, but rather crashed R everytime I used the package. However, downgrading R to 4.2.3 and using the cran version of odbc solved the issue.

eroten commented 11 months ago

@RaSieb I've been having the same issue!