Escape SQL-special characters in strings.

Source: R/extension.R

Escape SQL-special characters in strings.

dbEscapeStrings(con, strings, ...)

# S4 method for class 'MySQLConnection,character'
dbEscapeStrings(con, strings)

# S4 method for class 'MySQLResult,character'
dbEscapeStrings(con, strings, ...)

Arguments

con

a connection object (see dbConnect).

strings

a character vector.

...

any additional arguments to be passed to the dispatched method.

Value

A character vector with SQL special characters properly escaped.

Examples

if (mysqlHasDefault()) {
con <- dbConnect(RMySQL::MySQL(), dbname = "test")

tmp <- sprintf("SELECT * FROM emp WHERE lname = %s", "O'Reilly")
dbEscapeStrings(con, tmp)

dbDisconnect(con)
}
#> Could not initialise default MySQL database. If MySQL is running
#> check that you have a ~/.my.cnf file that contains a [rs-dbi] section
#> describing how to connect to a test database.