[R] Problem with RMySQL-0.5-3.zip/R 2.0.0 on Windows XP

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 vha at comcast.net wrote:

> I have been installing and using the RMySQL package, version 0.5-3 with
> R versions 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 on Windows XP without any problem. I
> installed the package using the .zip binary package available at
> http://stat.bell-labs.com/RS-DBI/download/index.html.
> 
> However, I ran into a problem using this package with the latest version
> 2.0.0 of R. The installation went ok, but loading the library using
> 
> library(RMySQL)
> 
> caused the following error:
> 
> Error in library(RMySQL) : 'RMySQL' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
> 
> Any comment/suggestion/advice on how to resolve this issue is greatly appreciated. 

You need to build it from the sources under R 2.0.0 unless/until someone 
provides a binary for 2.0.0.


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