Problem description:
When using RODBC 1.3-0 `sqlFetch' to read an ESRI format personal geodatabase table containing binary shape data, R crashes.
There is no crash under RODBC 1.2-6.

Code:
library(RODBC)
# connect to db
mdb <- odbcConnectAccess("r_test.mdb")
# fetch the table; this works under 1.2-6, fails under 1.3-0.
dat <- sqlFetch(mdb, "one_point")

Errors:






Sample Data: r_test.mdb

The Access table has this format:



And looks like this in Access:




And in R (when RODBC works):

> dat
  OBJECTID                                    Shape KC_food_sources_point_Unique_Identifier
1        1 010000008052E651575A334100963D8F4ACD0E41                               PR0001403
   ZCTA stfid_tract stfid_blkgrp
1 98103  5.3033e+10   5.3033e+11


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