[R-sig-DB] Re: Rdbi package plus draft proposal (was Re: Rdbi package)
Kurt Hornik
Kurt@Horn|k @end|ng |rom c|@tuw|en@@c@@t
Sun Oct 7 20:17:09 CEST 2001
>>>>> David James writes:
> Kurt Hornik wrote:
>> >>>>> David James writes:
>>
>> > 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).
>>
>> End of this week is fine.
>>
>> -k
> Hi,
> Well, earlier this week I committed to taking a look at the Rdbi
> package and to producing a first draft for the common database
> interface (which I'm attaching as two text files: DBI.tex and
> figure1.eps).
> The Rdbi package looks quite reasonable to me. It defines most of
> the core functionality we need, and I think that it wouldn't be too
> hard to make existing packages be compatible with it. I also have
> some suggestions and comments (in no particular order).
> 1. R/Splus compatibility.
> From an R/Splus compatibility point of view, I'd suggest
> renaming Rdbi to something neutral. Initially I had thought
> as RSdbi, but why not simply call it DBI -- and thus friendly
> to both.
I had raised this with Tim. One could argue for `SDBI' a la Omegahat
but I do not think the `S' is necessary.
I will wait with moving up the packages until the naming has been
deciced.
-k
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