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

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

Have you looked at ROracle on CRAN?  I don't know if it will work to a
remote Solaris database, as we have no need of that.

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Luke Whitaker wrote:

>
> [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.
>
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