[R] ROracle error at step 1

[Creighton, Sean]

Hello and thanks for the quick reply.

I got it here, 
	http://stat.bell-labs.com/RS-DBI/download/index.html

As the following site
	 http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ROracle/NEWS

mentions that the changes to the newest version are trivial. Although I
take your point that package could be expecting R code that has since
changed.

Whilst I can happily code in R the make file, Makefile.win,  for Version
0.5-9 is a bit beyond me. I'm not really a C++ expert. I don't suppose
you
or the wider R community have the binary for version 0.5-9? According to
the readme for the package

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/ReadMe

"Building binary versions of the contributed packages on CRAN has been
automated. Binary packages will be available on CRAN about 1-3 days 
after the sources have been published."

But I can't find any. All I want to do is kick off a stored procedure in
an Oracle database, I think it might be easier to go through rJava. I
don't want to quite give up just yet, on the elegant direct approach.

Thanks in advance 
Sean






-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: 23 April 2008 14:01
To: Creighton, Sean [CMB-FICC]
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] ROracle error at step 1

Where did you get your ROracle package from?

> Built: R 2.2.1; i386-pc-mingw32; 2006-02-13 18:05:59; windows

indicates it was too old.  All methods-using packages need to have been 
installed recently, and definitely since 2.4.0.  (It is unsafe to use
one 
that has not been installed for the same 'y' in 2.y.z because of its 
propensity for extracting bits of the R under which the package was 
installed.)

So 'step 1' is to install ROracle from the sources.


On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Creighton, Sean  wrote:

> Hi
>
> I Can't connect to the Oracle database, any tips? Has anybody actually
> got ROracle up and running on windows?
>
> 	>>  unable to find an inherited method for function "dbConnect",
> for signature "OraDriver"
>
> I can happily connect to the same database through RODBC. Oracle
client,
> version 9.2 installed, amongst others.
>
> Sean
>
>
>
>
>
>> library(DBI)
>> library(ROracle)
>>
>> packageDescription("ROracle")
> Package: ROracle
> Version: 0.5-7
> Date: 2006-02-13
> Title: Oracle database interface for R
> Author: David A. James <dj at bell-labs.com> Jake Luciani
> <jakeluciani at yahoo.com>
> Maintainer: David A. James <dj at bell-labs.com>
> Description: Oracle database interface (DBI) driver for R. This is a
> DBI-compliant Oracle driver based on the ProC/C++ embedded SQL. It
> implements the DBI version 0.1-8 plus one extension.
> SaveImage: yes
> Depends: R (>= 2.0.0), methods, DBI (>= 0.1-8)
> License: LGPL version 2 or newer
> URL: http://stat.bell-labs.com/RS-DBI http://www.omegahat.org
> Packaged: Mon Feb 13 18:05:55 2006; dj
> Built: R 2.2.1; i386-pc-mingw32; 2006-02-13 18:05:59; windows
>
> -- File: C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.0/library/ROracle/DESCRIPTION
>> packageDescription("DBI")
> Package: DBI
> Version: 0.2-4
> Title: R Database Interface
> Author: R Special Interest Group on Databases (R-SIG-DB)
> Maintainer: David A. James <daj025 at gmail.com>
> Depends: R (>= 2.3.0), methods
> Imports: methods
> Description: A database interface (DBI) definition for communication
> between R and relational database management systems.  All classes in
> this package are virtual and need to be extended by the various
>                       R/DBMS implementations.
> LazyLoad: yes
> License: LGPL (version 2 or later)
> Collate: DBI.R Util.R zzz.R
> Packaged: Tue Oct 16 21:43:31 2007; dj
> Built: R 2.6.0; ; 2007-10-17 12:21:14; windows
>
> -- File: C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.0/library/DBI/DESCRIPTION
>>
>> R.Version()
> $platform
> [1] "i386-pc-mingw32"
>
> $arch
> [1] "i386"
>
> $os
> [1] "mingw32"
>
> $system
> [1] "i386, mingw32"
>
> $status
> [1] ""
>
> $major
> [1] "2"
>
> $minor
> [1] "6.0"
>
> $year
> [1] "2007"
>
> $month
> [1] "10"
>
> $day
> [1] "03"
>
> $`svn rev`
> [1] "43063"
>
> $language
> [1] "R"
>
> $version.string
> [1] "R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)"
>
>>
>>
>> sDB_un<- "scott"
>> sDB_pwd<- "tiger"
>>
>>
>> Oracle()
> An object of class "OraDriver"
> Slot "Id":
> [1] 1952
>
>> dbDriver("Oracle")
> An object of class "OraDriver"
> Slot "Id":
> [1] 1952
>
>>
>>   Ora<- dbDriver("Oracle")
>> Con <- dbConnect(Ora, user = sDB_un, passwd = sDB_pwd)
> Error in function (classes, fdef, mtable)  :
>  unable to find an inherited method for function "dbConnect", for
> signature "OraDriver"
>>
>
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