[R-sig-DB] Re: DBI and postgreSQL

[David James]

Hi,

The RPgSQL package and its rdbi (not DBI) interface was
written by Tim Keitt and only available through sourceforge
http://rdbi.sourceforge.net (as far as I know).  You may want to
contact him directly.

Hope this helps,

--
David

jobst landgrebe wrote:
> Dear Mr. James,
> 
> since installing R 1.7.0 this morning, the postgreSQLinterface RPgSQL which
> I'm using since several years does not work anymore. I installed your DBI
> (which got installed without complaining), but dbDriver("PostgreSQL") gives me
> 
> 
> 
> > dbDriver("PostgreSQL")
> Error in do.call(as.character(drvName), list(...)) : 
>         couldn't find function "PostgreSQL"
> 
> How can I get a driver for postgreSQL that works with DBI? How is it
> installed?
> What would you advise me to do? Downgrading R is surely a bad solution...
> 
> As I really need the R-Postgres-interface for my daily work, I would be very
> happt to hear from you.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Jobst Landgrebe
> 
> Dr. Jobst Landgrebe
> Universitaet Goettingen
> Zentrum Biochemie
> Humboldtallee 23
> 37073 Goettingen
> Germany
> 
> tel: 0551/39-2316 oder -2223
> fax: 0551/39-5960
> web: http://www.microarrays.med.uni-goettingen.de
> mail: jlandgr1 using gwdg.de

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