[R-sig-DB] SOS! R Console crashed after loading RODBC... Update: Re: How to set up RODBC? Diff between R Console and RStudio?

[Michael]

Help! The R Console very quietly closed and exited without giving any
errors/warnings...after I loaded the RODBC library...

Loading required package: RODBC




On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Michael <comtech.usa using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It's very strange. In RStudio, I can successfully load("RODBC"). But in
> the plain R Console, I just couldn't get it work:
>
> (For some special and important reasons, I have to make the RODBC work in
> R Console, not the RStudio.)
>
> At first, the some shared library "libodbc.so" couldn't be found... it's
> right there, but R Console just couldn't find it.
>
> I then find that the
>
> Sys.getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH") is different for R Console vs. RStudio.
>
> Weirdly, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in RStudio even doesn't have any "ODBC"
> terms/words in its long string...
>
> I guess RStudio has some special configuration for RODBC, so it doesn't
> require LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set up for ODBC at all.
>
> I then added the ODBC library path into the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in R Console.
>
> I found that this problem is solved...
>
> But then the R Console complained that the "ODBCINI" was set up correctly.
>
> So I compared the "ODBCINI" in RStudio vs. "ODBCINI" in R Console, found
> the R Console one seems to be missing.
>
> I then copied the "ODBCINI" from RStudio and pasted it into R Console.
>
> Now the load("RODBC") can run in the plain R Console, but then the whole R
> console crashed without giving any errors/warnings...
>
> It exited back to the shell prompt...
>
> What can I do? Anybody please shed some lights on me on this?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>

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