Hi all,
Not sure if this is related specifically to Vertica or not, but I'm out of options.. so let's see.
I'm creating a Shiny app in R, where I need to read data from Vertica, and load data back into Vertica. When I started with this app, I was using RODBC (which I normally use when connecting to R). The app works fine locally, but after deploying the app to Shiny Server (which runs on Debian) the app crashes with a segfault error. I found this article, which unfortunately was not giving me an answer.
After doing some testing and reading, I finally switched to RJDBC, which works fine with Shiny Server. The only problem that I have now is the encoding of the data. Some of the data that I read from Vertica contain emoji's. Somehow these get scrambled with RJDBC, and causing my app to crash. I suspect this is related to the fact that the JDBC drivers convert everything from UTF-8 to UTF-16 (see also documentation here).
Ideally I use RODBC (I tested locally, and all emoji's look fine when using this method), but due to the segfault issue I cannot use it.
Any pointers on how to solve this are appreciated, because this problem is currently blocking any further progress on my app.
Kind Regards,
Derek
