[R] reading a ".mdf" file in R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

And we have little idea what the format of a ".mdf" file is.  (It has 
multiple meanings, see e.g. http://www.delphifaq.com/faq/f777.shtml.)

Since you mention 'with SQL', maybe you meant 'Microsoft SQL Server', 
some (older?) versions of which have '.mdf' files.  The short answer 
in that case is that you load the file into SQL Server and access it 
from R via ODBC -- but that is a discussion for r-sig-db (you'll need 
to subscribe to post), not for here.

On Sun, 8 May 2011, Mauricio Romero wrote:

> Hi,
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> I have a very large ".mdf" database (36 GB) that I want to import to R.
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> I'm using a computer with 64 GB of RAM, running on windows server 2008 R2
> with SQL.
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> Could anyone guide me through the process. I have absolutely no idea what to
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> Thanks,
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> Mauricio Romero
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