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

[Sean Davis]

On Feb 12, 2008 4:12 PM, Herve Pages <hpages using fhcrc.org> wrote:
> 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?

Good point, and I would love to see one, also.

Sean