RODBC patchlet

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

[ Disclaimer: Yes, I do know that RODBC is in a state of minor limbo as far
as maintenance is concerned. But it is also useful, and used, which is why I
hope that someone might apply the small change outlined below. ]

The current version in CRAN's devel directories fails to build under R 1.6.1
(beta from Oct 27):

chibud:/home/edd/RODBC# R CMD INSTALL .
* Installing *source* package 'RODBC' ...
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for library containing SQLTables... -lodbc
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating src/Makevars
** libs
gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include   -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c RODBC.c -o RODBC.o
RODBC.c:22: parse error
make: *** [RODBC.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RODBC'

My quick solution was to #ifdef the following block of RODBC.c away:

#if 0
#if R_VERSION < R_Version(1, 2, 0)
# define STRING_ELT(x,i)        (STRING(x)[i])
# define VECTOR_ELT(x,i)        (VECTOR(x)[i])
# define SET_STRING_ELT(x,i,v)  (STRING(x)[i] = (v))
# define SET_VECTOR_ELT(x,i,v)  (VECTOR(x)[i] = (v))
#endif
#endif

I'm sure there is a nicer solution, but it is immediately apparent to me. The
gcc version which puked is 2.95.4 as in Debian testing.

Dirk

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