[R-sig-DB] Connect R to MySQL DB installed via XAMPP

[julien cuisinier]

Many thanks both for your feedback. 

It must be said that the install of RMySQL on Windows is much more convoluted than what  R used us to...& it was working "off the shelve" (with the usual simple install.packkages())  in previous versions of R under windows, hence the confusion I think (mine at least).... 

sorry for the unecessary noise

Julien


> From: ggrothendieck using gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:48:28 -0400
> To: leroy.boris using gmail.com
> CC: r-sig-db using r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-DB] Connect R to MySQL DB installed via XAMPP
> 
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Boris Leroy <leroy.boris using gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Julien,
> >
> > yes I managed to connect R to MySQL through XAMPP, on the basis of the
> > RODBC package, because the other packages did not work properly.
> 
> The usual problem that users have with RMySQL is not that it does not
> work properly but that users don't read the installation instructions
> that come with it.  Instead rely on outdated or wrong information that
> they have found on the internet.   The installation instructions are
> in the INSTALL file in the source tar.gz and that file is also linked
> to on the RMySQL CRAN home page
> http://cran.r-project.org/package=RMySQL via the Installation: link.
> 
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