R: ODBC Close Connections

odbcClose {RODBC} | R Documentation

## ODBC Close Connections

### Description

Close connections to ODBC databases.

### Usage

    odbcClose(channel)

    ## S3 method for class 'RODBC'
    close(con, ...)

    odbcCloseAll()

### Arguments

`channel, con` | RODBC connection object as returned by `odbcConnect`.
`...` | additional arguments passed from the generic.

### Details

`odbcClose` cleans up and frees resources. It is also the method for the generic function `close`.

`odbcCloseAll` closes all open channels (amongst the first 1000 used in the session).

Channels are closed at the end of an R session, and may also be closed by garbage collection if no object refers to them. In both cases a warning is given (but may not be seen at the end of a console session).

### Value

Function `odbcClose` returns a logical indicating if it succeeded, invisibly unless a warning is given.

The `close` method returns `0` (success) or `1`, invisibly.

### Author(s)

Michael Lapsley and Brian Ripley

### See Also

`odbcConnect`

[Package RODBC version 1.3-16 Index]