RODBC update

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

There is a new version of RODBC, 0.9-1, with a new maintainer (me)
now on CRAN (Vienna) which works with R 1.6.x.  The Windows binary
will be there tomorrow, and both will then propagate around CRAN.

This has been tested on Linux under unixODBC against MySQL and Postgresql
(thanks to Dirk Edelbuettel), and on Windows against Access, MySQL and
Excel.  The CRAN compilation checks were against iODBC.

I had to make quite a lot of internal changes, so would appreciate
success/problem reports for other uses.

There are several improvements in this version, some of which I had
previously submitted to Michael Lapsley: see the ChangeLog.  I am
moving towards a 1.0 release which will be somewhat incompatible
(`channel' will be a classed object and quoting names will be
essential to allow them to be passed as R variables, for example).

In the longer term the planned DBI/ODBC interface may replace RODBC
entirely via a back-compatibility wrapper.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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