[Rd] R application dies of with windows (PR#13179)

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 10/20/2008 8:20 AM, sheetal.raut at gmail.com wrote:
> Full_Name: sheetal ganpat raut
> Version: R 2.7.2
> OS: windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (59.183.4.201)
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I m trying to establish connectivity between R 2.7.2 & MySQL server 5.1. I have
> succeded in retriving single data column(field) from database of  MySQL. But I m
> unable to retrive whole table. Whenever I fire dbReadTable or dbGetQuery or
> dbSendQuery method to retrive whole table R throws error saying R for windows
> front end application has encountered a problem and need to close the
> application.
> 
> I m using RMysql-0.6 and DBI 0.2-4.

This looks like a bug with one of those contributed packages, not with 
R.  Please send your report to the maintainer.

You might find better luck using RODBC.

Duncan Murdoch