Hi

Thanks for the reply. I managed to find a simpler solution using RJDBC. All
I needed to do was install RJDBC, DBI and download oracle driver for JDBC.

Regards
Siddharth

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@me.com> wrote:

> On Oct 14, 2010, at 12:45 AM, siddharth.garg85@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Can someone please help me with connecting to oracle via R. I have been
> trying to use ROracle but its giving me a lot of trouble because of pro*c.
> >
> > Thanks&Regards
> > Siddharth
>
>
> You have not provided sufficient information (OS, error messages, what you
> have done so far, etc.) to enable us to help you. Review the Posting Guide:
>
>  http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html>
>
> To start, be sure to read:
>
>  http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ROracle/INSTALL
>
> I would also recommend searching the list archives, using one of the R
> search tools such as:
>
>  http://www.rseek.org/
>
> using "ROracle" as a keyword.
>
> Depending upon your platform, you may wish to consider using the RODBC
> package instead, which I have used on Linux and OSX to connect to Oracle
> servers.
>
> Finally, there is the R-SIG-DB list, which is focused on R and database
> connectivity/usage. More information is here:
>
>  https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-db
>
> I would recommend subscribing to that list and re-posting your query there,
> with additional details, once you have reviewed the above resources.
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
>

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