[R] DBM databases for R?

[Petra Steiner]

Hello,

> Unfortunately, I don't think that's what the OP is looking for - by DBM
> databases she probably means Berkeley-style database files, for which (as

that is what I meant indeed. I hoped I could use this mode of storing large
data for the import of my matrix stuff.  Writing out to a file which R could
read would be of no improvement, for this is what my program is doing at the
moment by scan.

Thanks for your answers!

Regards,
Petra

> far as I know) there is no ODBC driver.  The only method I can think of to
> do it would be to read the dbm using perl, then write it out, either to a
> socket connected to R (the fancy way) or to a file which R could then read
> in.
>
> ap
>
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> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
>  Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 Jan_Svatos at eurotel.cz wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> > in general, there is RODBC package for general ODBC connection.
> > This works for me well (Windows NT, with name.of.server in ODBC
sources):
> >
> > library(RODBC)
> > str1 <- "some.sql.select"
> >
> > channel <- odbcConnect("name.of.database","","",host="name.of.server") #
> > connects to database
> > BTS <- sqlQuery(channel, str1) # runs SQL command
> > odbcClose(channel)
> >
> > I think there are even some packages for specific RDBMS, like Postgres,
but
> > I am quite happy with RODBC
> >
> > Jan
> >
> >
> >
> > - - - Original message: - - -
> > From: owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Send: 27/01/2002 3:35:33 PM
> > To: <r-help at lists.r-project.org> "Petra Steiner"
<steinep at uni-muenster.de>
> > Subject: [R] DBM databases for R?
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Can I use DBM databases (as they are used in Perl) for the import of
> > large datasets in R?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help,
> >
> > Petra Steiner
> >
> > -
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