[R-sig-DB] DBI documentation

[Paul Gilbert]

Hadley

?dbConnect says

      drv: an object that inherits from ‘DBIDriver’, or a character
           string specifying the name of DBMS driver, e.g., "RSQLite",
           "RMySQL", "RPostgreSQL", or an existing ‘DBIConnection’
           object (in order to clone an existing connection).

and further down

      manner. For instance ‘dbConnect("MySQL")’ produces an object of

The inconsistency, "RMySQL" vs "MySQL", has probably existed for a long 
time, but I seem to recall that the character specifications no longer 
work. Certainly they are no longer the preferred approach. Am I wrong on 
that?

?dbConnect also says

      ...: authorization arguments needed by the DBMS instance; these
           typically include ‘user’, ‘password’, ‘dbname’, ‘host’,
           ‘port’, etc.  For details see the appropriate ‘DBIDriver’.

I am trying to find details for the MySQL driver and it is less than 
obvious where that would be. (Trying to verify if the complete argument 
name is "user" or "username" for MySQL.) Could "For details see the 
appropriate ‘DBIDriver’" be expanded? It is not really even obvious how 
to print out the correct function to get this information from the code.

Thanks,
Paul