[R] Load a data from oracle database to R

[Marc Schwartz]

On Apr 23, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Gagan Pabla wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am have trying to load data in R by connecting R to the database the
> following way:
>> library(RODBC)
>> channel<-odbcConnect("gagan")
>
> now after I connect to the server by putting pwd. I want to load  
> table from
> the database named "temp" in to R so that I can do some descriptive
> statistics with it.
>
> now when I try to do "data(temp)" it gives error saying "In  
> data(temp) :
> data set 'temp' not found".
>
> So, how do I load the table to R.
>
> Your help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gagan

Once you have established the connection to the Oracle server, you  
then need to perform a query against the database to get the data into  
R. So something like the following:

   temp <- sqlQuery(channel, "select * from temp")
   close(channel)

Now you will have a data frame in R called temp.

See ?sqlQuery after loading RODBC.

BTW, there is a r-sig-db list. More info here:

   https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-db

HTH,

Marc Schwartz