[R-sig-DB] RMySQL package on windows 2k

Prof Brian Ripley r|p|ey @end|ng |rom @t@t@@ox@@c@uk
Mon Jul 23 10:54:54 CEST 2007


On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Please read the @ReadMe there!  It says
>
> The packages
>  gsl, ncdf, rgdal, RMySQL, RNetCDF, udunits, and xgobi
> do not build out of the box. Nevertheless these are available at
>  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.5/
> kindly provided by Professor Brian D. Ripley.
>
> which is the CRANextras repository which is selected by default, so 
> install.packages("RMySQL") should work.  But note that
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/ReadMe says
>
>  The build of RMySQL_0.6-0 is known to work with MySQL 5.0.21, and known
>  not to work with 5.0.41.
>
> whereas RODBC works with 5.0.41.

The better news is that RMySQL works again with the current 5.0.45.

>
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, along zeng wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>     I want to visit MySQL databse in R using pacakge RMySQL on
>> plateform Windows 2k,but I visited some CRAN,such as Berkeley,UCLA
>> ,UCDavis in US,crycit of Argentina ,unfortunately,only package of
>> RMySQL on MacOS could find! Could somebody tell me where and how can I
>> get it?
>>  Thanks a lot.
>>   along
>> 
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