[R] How to install RMySQL package in R 2.5 in Windows OS?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Ruixin ZHU wrote:

> Dear R-users,
>
> It seems that install.packages( ) doesn't work to RMySQL package.

Under Windows, yes.  You need the MySQL client libraries for your version 
of MySQL (or something very close to the same version), so the only safe 
way is to install from the sources.  The latter is not hard and there are 
instructions in the package.


> Would anybody have the experience of that?
>
> Thanks
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