[R-sig-DB] DBI driver for PostgreSQL?

[David James]

That's correct.  Rdbi.PGSQL requires Rdbi, not DBI.

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:31:37PM -0500, David James wrote:
> > Douglas Bates wrote:
> > > Is there an R DBI-compliant driver for PostgreSQL?
> > 
> > Yes, as of DBI 0.1-2.  See Tim Keitt's packages 
> > Rdbi and Rdbi.PgSQL at sourceforge.com.
> 
> I am confused. DBI is now at CRAN and at 0.1.4.
> 
> Rdbi and Rdbi.PgSQL are still at 0.1.2 -- and it appears that Rdbi.PgSQL
> does not want to play with DBI. Is that right?
> 
> > library(DBI)
> > library(Rdbi.PgSQL)
> Loading required package: Rdbi
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>         Could not load package Rdbi
> 	In addition: Warning message:
> 	There is no package called Rdbi' in: library(package, char = TRUE,
> logical = TRUE, warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts,
> Error in library(Rdbi.PgSQL) : .First.lib failed
> 
> Should I patch Rdbi.PgSQL to work load DBI instead?
> 
> Dirk
> 
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