[R] Running RMySQL with SuSE 8.2?

[M.Kondrin]

Barnet Wagman wrote:

>Do you know where I find a patched version, or where I find the patch an 
>instructions on how to install it?  (I didn't see anything about this on 
>CRAN.)  I'm running R-base-1.8.0-1.i386.rpm (the most recent binary 
>available for SuSE) and it appears to have the 'valueClass' problem.
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>Thanks,
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>Barnet
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>David James wrote:
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>>However, 
>>there is a problem in the released version of R 1.8.0 that affects
>>the DBI and other packages (has something to do with methods
>>that use the "valueClass" argument in the setGeneric/setMethod functions).
>>In this case one needs to use the R-patched version.
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>>Hope this helps,
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>>--
>>David
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>>Barnet Wagman wrote:
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>>>Since there doesn't appear to be an RMySQL rpm for SuSE 8.*,  does 
>>>anyone know if the 7.3 version will work with the SuSE 8.2 rpms of R and 
>>>DBI?
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>>>The package installs without complaint, but when I try to run
>>>
>>>   con <- dbConnect(dbDriver("MySQL"),dbname="test")
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>>>I get the error
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>>>   Error in dbConnect(dbDriver("MySQL")) : couldn't find function 
>>>".valueClassTest"
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>>>(This is my first attempt to access a an rdms from R, so I could be 
>>>doing something else wrong.)
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>>>Any ideas as what might be generating this error, or as to combinations 
>>>of rpms that will work under SuSE 8.2 would be appreciated. (I took a 
>>>stab at compiling RMySQL from src, but I don't have MySQL src installed 
>>>and I rather not get involved in this if I can avoid it.)
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Barnet Wagman
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There was a discussion about it just after R-1.8.0 was released. Patched 
version may be found at CRAN (as usual). For example 
ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/R-patched_2003-10-*. You can 
either compile it from scratch or fix your available installation just 
adding a line exports(.valueClassTest) to the end of NAMESPACE file in 
the methods library (this works for me).