[R] ODBC Oracle access

[Toby.Patterson@csiro.au]

Hi all, 
I'm having trouble connecting to an oracle database using RODBC under
winXP. Unfortunately I can't really send a reproducable error as the
initial call to odbcConnect seems to hangs R and I have to kill the
session. 

I have been using RODBC to sucessfully connect to an MS Access DB that
has tables linked through to the oracle database in question and that
seems to work OK but it would be preferable to cut out the MS access
middle-man. 

The command I'm attempting to use is: 

conn<- odbcConnect(dsn='myDSN', uid = "myUID", pwd = "myPWD", case =
"oracle",believeNRows=FALSE)

I wouldn't be surprised if there is an issue with the dsn configuration
and not R (though I cant find it) so any tips as to things that I should
check there would also be gratefully received. 

Version
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platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    1              
minor    7.1            
year     2003           
month    06             
day      16             
language R   

Regards, 
 
Toby. 

Toby Patterson
Pelagic Fisheries and Ecosystems
CSIRO Marine Research