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

[Jeffrey Horner]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote on 08/31/2008 09:54 AM:
> 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).

Yes, and I have patches still laying around to fix memory leaks.

David, would you like me to take over as maintainer maintainer?

Jeff

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


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