[R] Troubles installing RMySQL on Win2K

[Ian Long]

That works perfectly, thank you.

The question of how did I "load it" is a hard one to answer - over the past 
two weeks I have had a variety of different attempts. I believe as you 
suggest, I had a source distribution and was struggling to find out how to 
compile it.

Many thanks for your efforts,
Ian.

At 22:08 14/03/2004 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>Where did you get RMySQL from and how did you `load' it?
>
>Most likely you unpacked a source distribution instead of installing.
>There is a binary version of RMySQL available at
>
>http://stat.bell-labs.com/RS-DBI/download
>
>If you didn't use that, please try it.
>
>On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Ian Long wrote:
>
> > What do I need to do to load the RMySQL library on Win 2K using version 
> 1.8.1
> >
> > I have Mysql v4.0.16 up and running on the local machine with several
> > databases running fine.
> >
> > Using RGUI I have loaded RMySQL and an appropriate directory structure has
> > appeared under
> > C:\Program Files\R\rw1081\library\RMySQL
> >
> > I have added C:\Program Files\R\rw1081\library\RMySQL\inst\libs to my path
> > variable so that libmySQL.dll can be found.
> >
> > If I type library(), then I see RMySQL in the list of available packages.
> >
> > If I try and load the library, I get
> >  > library(RMySQL)
> > Error in testRversion(descfields) : This package has not been installed
> > properly
> >   See the Note in ?library
> >
> > Where am I going wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ian.
> >
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