[R] Serverless databases in R

[kMan]

It was my understanding that .Rdata files were not very portable, and do not
natively handle queries. Otherwise we'd all just use .RData files instead of
farming the work out to SQL drivers & external libraries, and colleagues who
use, e.g. SAS or SPSS would also have no trouble with them.

Sincerely,
KeithC.

-----Original Message-----
From: b.rowlingson at googlemail.com [mailto:b.rowlingson at googlemail.com] On
Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 12:25 PM
To: Gabor Grothendieck
Cc: kMan; r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Serverless databases in R

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> SQLite and H2.  These databases are included right in the driver 
> packages RSQLite and RH2 so there is nothing extra to install except 
> you must have Java installed in the case of H2.  Also both are 
> supported by sqldf.

 Plain old .RData files could also be considered as cross-platform,
serverless databases. I think the original poster needs to be a bit more
explicit, perhaps explaining what he wants these things for.

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