[R-sig-DB] Error: package 'RODBC' was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 27 February 2014 at 14:09, Luis Ridao wrote:
| 
| I'm trying to install the RODBC on Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bits)
| By doing within R:
| 
| > install.packages('RODBC')
| configure: error: "ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not found"
| ERROR: configuration failed for package ?RODBC?
| * removing ?/home/luisr/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/RODBC?
| 
| The downloaded source packages are in
|     ?/tmp/Rtmp6uZtxC/downloaded_packages?
| Warning message:
| In install.packages("RODBC") :
|   installation of package ?RODBC? had non-zero exit status
| 
| by doing outside R:
| 
| > sudo apt-get install r-cran-rodbc
| 
| it works but back in R i get this message:

Sorry. Missed that.  Then do

     sudo apt-get install unixodbc-dev       

to be able to compile ROBDC from source and proceed with (from within R)

     install.packages('RODBC')

which should now work.

Dirk
 
| > library(RODBC)
| Error: package ?RODBC? was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it
| 
| 
| Can anyone help?
| 
| best,
| Luis

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