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RossP96
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Error when Getting Data from R Script which References MySQL Query

I'm trying to run an R script in Power BI which connects to multiple sources and then runs a GLM to return predictions in a new dataframe. Im struggling with debugging some of the errors im getting.

 

The latest one is "Error in sqlQuery - first argument is not an open RODBC channel"

I have connected to the server initially in script:

 

con <- DBI::dbConnect(odbc::odbc(),
Driver = "{MySQL ODBC 8.0 ANSI Driver}",
Server = "server name",
UID ="username",
Database = "database",
PWD = "password",
Port = 3306)

 

I have then used the following at the start of the SQL query:

 

dataframe_name <- sqlQuery (con,

"SELECT.....

 

Any ideas why im getting this error?

 

Thanks

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RossP96
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Update: ive now got the above working by moving to dbGetQuery, which is working for my first query. However the second query is giving me the error "Unable to translate bytes [A3] at index -1 from specified code page to Unicode." I've had a look online and cant see much for this error, any ideas?

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