diff --git a/com.oracle.truffle.r.test/tests/hbase/QuerySimple.R b/com.oracle.truffle.r.test/tests/hbase/QuerySimple.R
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+emp = new.table("emp", "HBase", "hbase-site.xml", "default")
+q = select(function (x) { res = new.env(); res$ename = x$ename; res },
+    from(emp))
+results = query.force(q)
+for (r in results) { print (r$ename) }