[R-sig-DB] R and Postgres

[Sebastian P. Luque]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:34:34 -0700,
"Bryce Baril" <bryce using marketoutsider.com> wrote:

> Hello all, I'm fairly new to R, and would like to connect to Postgres.

> I spent some time trying to figure out how to best do this today, and
> mostly found dead-ends and old information.

> Could someone please either point me to an active project, perhaps
> with a good example on how to do this?

> I'm hoping to use a DBI (or DBI-like) interface, but if all else fails
> I'm sure I can figure out ODBC.

The RODBC package comes with good documentation showing this through
ODBC.  Starting with its README helps a lot, and then ?odbcConnect and
the other ?odbc* functions will give you the rest.  I don't know about a
non-ODBC interface between R and PostgreSQL.


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Seb