[R] RES: RdbiPgSQL in R 2.4.1

[Seth Falcon]

"Eduardo Dutra de Armas" <eduarmasrs at yahoo.com.br> writes:

> Hi Seth
> I'm running R on WinXP. On the first time I've installed Rdbi and RdbiPgSQL
> from zip files not downloaded from Bioconductor. No problems during
> installation.
> Now I tried to install from biocLite and a message was showed for RdbiPgSQL.
>
>> biocLite(c("Rdbi", "RdbiPgSQL"))
> Running getBioC version 0.1.8 with R version 2.4.1
> Running biocinstall version 1.9.9 with R version 2.4.1
> Your version of R requires version 1.9 of Bioconductor.
> Dependency ''RdbiPgSQL'' is not available
> ...
>
> I gave a look at Bioconductor site, where I saw an Error report during
> checking of BioC 1.9/RdbiPgSQL for Windows Server 2003. The same was
> reported for another BioC releases.
> Conclusion: Isn't possible access postgreSQL databases from R?

You are partly right: We don't have Windows binary packages available
for the RdbiPgSQL package.  The source package works on Linux and OS X
(if you have the appropriate tools to build source packages).

You might be able to connect using the RODBC package.

+ seth