[R-sig-DB] Re: Rdbi package [forwarded msg]

[Timothy H. Keitt]

I haven't had time to fix up the data conversion stuff. I have some old 
routines from RPgSQL in Rdbi.PgSQL. The choice is to leave the 
conversion behavior undefined and let each specific implementation 
handle conversion however they see fit, or to define a set of generic 
functions to be subclassed. The latter is preferable, but probably 
difficult to get right given the heterogeneity among potential data 
sources. (Or more accurately, I mean that its difficult to do cleanly; 
if you cover all the marginal cases, it will get unwieldy.)

Tim

David James wrote:

> Kurt Hornik wrote:
> 
>>>>>>>M Edward Borasky writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>Sounds good to me. At some point in the near future I may get a chance
>>>to test it on a Windows box with MS Access; I've been using RODBC for
>>>that.
>>>
>>Ok.  Will wait till tomorrow morning to allow for further reactions.
>>
> 
> Not that I anticipate any major issues, but could we wait until the end
> of this week?  I'd like to check a couple of things (one that Torsten
> brought to my attention last week and has to do with data conversions,
> and portability to Splus being the other).


I'm not running Splus, so I haven't tried to make it compatible. It 
would seem to be a good thing to do, although I admit, I've been pretty 
unhappy with Mathsoft in the past because of their callous attitude 
towards UNIX, which (as far as I know) is the environment where S 
originated.


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
>>Best,
>>-k
>>
>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: r-sig-db-admin using stat.math.ethz.ch
>>>>[mailto:r-sig-db-admin using stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Kurt Hornik
>>>>Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 2:58 AM
>>>>To: Kurt.Hornik using ci.tuwien.ac.at
>>>>Cc: David James; R-SIG-DB using stat.math.ethz.ch; Timothy H. Keitt; Saikat
>>>>DebRoy; Torsten Hothorn
>>>>Subject: [R-sig-DB] Re: Rdbi package [forwarded msg]
>>>>I have not seen any followup on this for almost a month.
>>>>
>>>>Hence, I assume that everyone is happy with the new design, and suggest
>>>>to move Tim's package from contrib/Devel to contrib.
>>>>
>>>>-k
>>>>
> 


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Timothy H. Keitt
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