[R] Installing RODBC

[Jeff Newmiller]

My guess is that you do not have the appropriate ODBC development library for your operating system installed. It is not unusual that R packages that provide interfaces to outside APIs require that those resources be installed and configured in the operating system before the relevant R library can be installed.
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On August 20, 2014 3:43:44 PM PDT, William Deese <williamdeese at gmail.com> wrote:
>I tried installing RODBC but got the following message:
>
>Checks were yes until the following
>
>checking sql.h usability... no
>checking sql.h presence... no
>checking for sql.h... no
>checking sqlext.h usability... no
>checking sqlext.h presence... no
>checking for sqlext.h... no
>configure: error: "ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not found"
>ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RODBC’
>* removing ‘/home/bill/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/RODBC’
>
>Apparently RODBC was there when R was installed, but library() shows
>it is not there now, although the DBI package is. Best ideas for
>installing RODBC?
>
>Bill
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