[R-SIG-Mac] brief RMySQL walkthrough

[Simon Urbanek]

Kyle,

is there a particular reason why to not use a much simpler
install.packages("RMySQL")

You don't need any of the stuff below to use it ...

Cheers,
Simon


On Mar 25, 2010, at 14:18 , Kyle Matoba wrote:

> All,
>
> Here are the steps I went through to install RMySQL on Snow Leopard
> this morning ( March 25, 2010 ):
>
> Download and install mySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
> (MySQL Community Server 5.1.45)
> Download the client libraries:
> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/c/ (Connector/C 6.0.2)
> Obtain the source: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/RMySQL_0.7-4.tar.gz
> Unpack the source (in finder, e.g.)
> Unpack the client libraries, copy the /include and /lib directories
> into the corresponding in /usr/local/mysql/ or wherever you installed
> mySQL.
> Compile the source:
>
> R CMD INSTALL --configure-args='--with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
> --with-mysql-inc=/usr/local/mysql/include
> --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib'
> ~/Downloads/RMySQL_0.7-4.tar
>
> Do not know if this is the most concise way of going about it, but it
> worked for me.  For further reading I recommend Jeff's exchange of
> April 30, 2009.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kyle
>
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