Hi Thanks for the reply,
thats correct think its not a debian issue  will follow the r-sig-db


On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:

>
> 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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