[R] DBI/ROracle for remote database connection ?

[David James]

Hi,

You may want to take a look at the file "README.client" under the
main ROracle package directory.  It describes how to access Oracle
from an Oracle-less linux workstation.

--
David

Luke Whitaker wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have installed the ROracle and DBI packages, and I want to
> access an Oracle database that is not on the same machine
> as the one I am running R on.
> 
> I can access the database remotely with perl DBI and Java JDBC.
> Does anyone know if this is possible using R DBI/ROracle ? I
> have looked through the documentation and also tried to guess
> at things which might work, but with no success.
> 
> I have also looked at using ODBC, but apparently there isn't an
> inexpensive ODBC oracle driver for linux.
> 
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i686             
> os       linux-gnu        
> system   i686, linux-gnu  
> status                    
> major    1                
> minor    6.2              
> year     2003             
> month    01               
> day      10               
> language R                
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Luke Whitaker
> 
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