[R] sql query over local tables

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Jorge Cornejo Donoso wrote:

> Hi i have to table with IDs in each one.

And what is a 'table'?  If these are data frames, see ?merge.  If they are 
tables (which are arrays in R), then still use merge() if they can be 
converted to data frames.

> I want to make a join (as in sql) by the ID. Is any way to use the RODBC
> package (or other) in local tables (not a access, mysql, sql, etc. )  and
> made the join?

No, they use the DBMS to do the hard work.

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