[R-sig-DB] Is any database particularly better at "exchanging" large datasets with R?

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thatsanicehatyouhave using mac.com wrote:
> On 6 Feb 2008, at 21:49, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> I thought the only maintained and working interface to Postgres was
>> RODBC.  Is there a package somewhere (other than the one for  
>> embedding R
>> into Postgres)?  Is there a package that uses DBI?
> 
> There is - take a look here:
> 
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/Software.html
> 
> Install both "Rdbi" and "RdbiPgSQL". These work amazingly well for me.

This one uses Rdbi, not DBI.

AFAIK there is no DBI package for Postgres. Anybody willing to start one?

Cheers,
H.