[R] Does SQL group by have a heavy duty equivalent in R

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Tue Jan 2 16:15:58 CET 2007


On 1/1/07, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> And it works perfectly well with RODBC, so you don't need yet
> another package.  RODBC even comes with SQLite examples.

Thanks, I hadn't thought of that and it should simplify things as we
are already using RODBC for MySQL.

> BTW, 'fast' is rather misleading: SQLite is often fast for small tasks,
> but can be very slow compared to a more serious DBMS.

Agreed. We switch to MySQL for larger jobs.

    jab
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