[R-sig-DB] RMySQL still treats timestamp as character?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:

> Greetings -- downloaded RMySQL 0.6.0, and on a table with timestamps it gets 
> them over as character.  Found an email in this group from 2006, about 
> switching to RODBC, did that, got lovely floats...  Any progress on that for 
> RMySQL proper?

You need to ask the maintainer (see the posting guide).  But my 
understanding is that RMySQL is not actively maintained (and has not be 
changed for 15 months).

What is the difficulty in converting the character vector you get to a
POSIXct or Date class?

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