[R-sig-DB] Sybase anyone?
Detlef Steuer
Det|e|@Steuer @end|ng |rom un|bw-h@mburg@de
Wed Sep 10 16:51:41 CEST 2003
>
> Sig-DBers,
>
> We're currently trying to figure how to let R (on Solaris) talk to ybase (on
> Solaris). As there is (AFAIK) no R DBI interface package for Sybase, we
> tried RODBC with unixODBC and FreeTDS. We got halfway there -- we connect
> and get table info, but no actual content.
That seems familiar ...
>
> We now have two choices: debug the both the FreeTDS and the unixODBC layer,
> or start fresh against CTlib.
>
> Has anybody here tried either? Or is there a fundamental reason I am
> missing about why R doesn't play with Sybase?
My way was to build a communication pipeline using Perl::DBI.
A bit ugly, but did what it should do.
Cu
detlef
>
> Thanks for any and all pointers, Dirk
>
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