On Aug 20, 2014, at 5:43 PM, William Deese <williamde...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried installing RODBC but got the following message: > > Checks were yes until the following > > checking sql.h usability... no > checking sql.h presence... no > checking for sql.h... no > checking sqlext.h usability... no > checking sqlext.h presence... no > checking for sqlext.h... no > configure: error: "ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not found" > ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RODBC’ > * removing ‘/home/bill/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/RODBC’ > > Apparently RODBC was there when R was installed, but library() shows > it is not there now, although the DBI package is. Best ideas for > installing RODBC? > > Bill You are missing the indicated header files, which are required if you are building the package from source. As per the extensive vignette that Prof. Ripley has provided: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RODBC/vignettes/RODBC.pdf in Appendix A, which describes Installation, you will find: "For other systems the driver manager of choice is likely to be unixODBC, part of almost all Linux distributions and with sources downloadable from http://www.unixODBC.org. In Linux binary distributions it is likely that package unixODBC-devel or unixodbc-dev or some such will be needed." Thus, for whatever Linux distribution you are using, install the relevant RPMs or Debs or ... Also, for future reference, there is a specific mailing list for DB related queries: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-db and a search of the list archives, for example using rseek.org, would likely result in your finding queries and answers to this same issue over the years. Regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
