[R-sig-DB] problem loading RMySQL
Jeffrey Horner
je||@horner @end|ng |rom v@nderb||t@edu
Thu Apr 30 17:12:17 CEST 2009
Milstead.Bryan using epamail.epa.gov wrote on 04/30/2009 07:11 AM:
>
> Hi Jeff: I'd like to use the RMySQL package that you administer but am
> having trouble loading it. I can download and install the package but
> can't load it. Below is the output from my attempt. I will appreciate
> any help you can give me on this. Thanks.
>
>
> > utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> trying URL
> 'http://www.revolution-computing.com/cran/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/RMySQL_0.7-4.zip'
>
> Content type 'application/zip' length 386775 bytes (377 Kb)
> opened URL
> downloaded 377 Kb
>
> package 'RMySQL' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> C:\Documents and Settings\WMilstea\Local
> Settings\Temp\RtmpxbLL7f\downloaded_packages
> updating HTML package descriptions
> > local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available = TRUE)))
> + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=TRUE)})
> Error in if (utils::file_test("-d", MySQLhome)) break :
> argument is of length zero
> Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'RMySQL'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'RMySQL'
Weird. Run the code below and send me the output:
sessionInfo()
.libPaths()
Sys.getenv('MYSQL_HOME')
utils::readRegistry("SOFTWARE\\MySQL AB", hive="HLM", maxdepth=2)
I'm also CC'ing this to r-sig-db to capture and archive your issue.
Jeff
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