[R] R talking to Oracle, ODBC drivers available ?

[Luke Whitaker]

[sorry, but this is a re-post - I forgot to set the subject line 
 the first time around]

Hello,

I would like to access an Oracle database running on Solaris from
R on my linux desktop. I have had a look at the R Data Import/Export
manual, and downloaded RODBC and unixODBC, but I am still quite confused
about how to proceed. It appears to me that I still need to get an Oracle
ODBC driver, and the only one I can find is from Easysoft for 880 euros,
which is not available for this project.

Is there any free software which will enable R on linux to talk to Oracle
on Solaris (both reading and writing data) ? 

My R setup is as follows:

platform i386-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i386             
os       linux-gnu        
system   i386, linux-gnu  
status                    
major    1                
minor    5.1              
year     2002             
month    06               
day      17               
language R                

Thanks,

Luke Whitaker.