[R-sig-Debian] ROracle ubuntu64 issue

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 8 September 2009 at 19:55, Arun Eamani wrote:
| Hi,
| i have R on ubuntu64
| 
| i got ROracle database connection issues as seen below
| 
| at a loss do to what next
| 
| > library(ROracle)
| Loading required package: DBI
| > m <- dbDriver("Oracle")
| > con <- dbConnect(m, username="EPICEDF", password="ps39000b",
| dbname="EPICD2007", address="10.1.16.40")
| Error in oraNewConnection(drv, ...) :
|   unused argument(s) (address = "10.1.16.40")
| > con <- dbConnect(m, username="myname", password="mwpwd",
| dbname="10.1.16.40")
| 
| 
|  *** caught segfault ***
| address (nil), cause 'memory not mapped'
| 
| Traceback:
|  1: .Call("RS_Ora_newConnection", drvId, con.params, max.results,
| PACKAGE = .OraPkgName)
|  2: oraNewConnection(drv, ...)
|  3: is(object, Cl)
|  4: is(object, Cl)
|  5: .valueClassTest(standardGeneric("dbConnect"), "DBIConnection",
| "dbConnect")
|  6: dbConnect(m,......


I doubt that this is Ubuntu-specific. Did you try the r-sig-db list to see if
you can get hold of someone else using Oracle from R?

Dirk

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