[R-sig-DB] RBI and front-ends to RODBC and RPgSQL

[detiei@steuer m@iii@g oii u@ibw-h@mburg@de]

On 12-Dec-2001 Kurt Hornik wrote:
>>>>>> Torsten Hothorn writes:
> 
>>> 
>>> > please do not invest any time into RmSQL: nobody uses that (for good
>>> > reasons)! It was a design study (nearly 3 years ago) and was good for
>>> > that special issue.
>>> 
>>> Torsten: should we remove the package along with the 1.4 release then?
>>> 
> 
>> well, I expected this question and thought about it :-)
> 
>> it is, technically, out of date in some way. but it is maintained and
>> passes R CMD check and supports yet another db-system. 
> 
>> I feel that it should stay, but I can accept if you like to remove it
>> from CRAN :-)
> 
> Your call.

Well, 

1. maintained
2. passes R CMD check.
+
3. mSQL not supported by RDBI for now.

gives a definitve "stay in archive".
(Is very nice for any new user to find her database usable.)

detlef



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