[R] R and mysql

[Uwe Ligges]

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> To run with R 2.5.1 you need the Windows binary of RMySQL 0.6-0 but
> I don't think that that is available on either CRAN or BioConductor currently.

But on the "CRAN extras" repository which is provided by Brian Ripley. 
You can even select it from the menu (and it should be the default).
Hence install.packages("RMySQL") shoudl work.

Uwe Ligges



> however, one does exist and I suggest you contact the
> maintainer, David James or the r-sig-db list.  If those don't get it for you
> send me an email off list and I will send you mine.
> 
> I have only used the Windows version on XP so I can't say whether there
> would be any problems on W2k.
> 
> On 7/22/07, along zeng <xh.along at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>     I want to visit MySQL in R use RMySQL package on Windows 2k.I got
>> RMySQL and DBI packages from a cran,but only the package  RMySQL  is
>> built on MasOS.I extracted both and put them under the folder of
>> "library",started R and typed string as ,
>>> require(RMySQL);
>> R told me DBI was loaded,but RMySQL  was't loaded because R not found it.
>>
>>
>> Thank very much!
>>  along
>>
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