[R-sig-DB] Does anyone have compiled ROracle for i386s?

[Gorjanc Gregor]

Hello!

I have a Debian GNU/Linux on i386 platform with Oracle instant client to 
connect to Oracle on Windows. Bellow is the prompt I get when I connect 
to the with  version numbers. I would like to connect to that database via 
R. I found a way described in README.client of ROracle package i.e. I need 
to compile ROracle on Linux machine with Oracle, but I do not have an access
to such machine. 

Is there anyone out there who has compiled ROracle under i386 platform 
(I have Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor) and is willing to share the binary 
package?

I just found out that Oracle has also and ODBC driver for client and I will
try to install it and then connect to Oracle via RODBC. Does anyone have
any comments on this approach? I will report what I have done.

Thank you very much in advance.

SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.4.0 - Production on Fri Sep 9 07:41:50 2005
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Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor Gorjanc

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