[R] RODBC, IODBC and Mac OS X

[Sean Davis]

Have you looked at these two packages that, together, provide Postgres 
access and do not require ODBC?  I have found them quite useful and I use 
them on Panther:

http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.5/package/html/Rdbi.html
http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.5/package/html/RdbiPgSQL.html

Sean

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Depiereux Constant" <constant.depiereux at aqte.be>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 5:21 PM
Subject: [R] RODBC, IODBC and Mac OS X


> Dear All,
>
> As some of you in the archive, i am experiencing problems in using RODBC 
> with IODBC on Mac OS X Panther.
>
> I am currrently facing two problems.
>
> The first one is apparently linked with IODBC (according to returned R 
> error message) although testing the database access from IODBC manager 
> seems to work fine.
>
> The second is by far more radical, R purely and simply reports an error , 
> blocks and I finally got a Mac OS X message.
>
> I browsed the archive without really finding a solution. Before spending 
> lengthy hours on an operating system that I am currently discovering, I 
> have therefore a simple question :
>
> DOES ANY BODY HAVE A COOKBOOK EXPLAINING HOW TO ACCESS - THRU ODBC - A 
> POSTGRESQL DATABASE USING R ON MAC OS X PANTHER ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
>
>
>
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