AFAIK the only way to connect to Sybase from R is with the RODBC package, so you need to have an ODBC driver for Sybase -- either one provided by Sybase or the FreeTDS ODBC driver from www.freetds.org.
Regards, -- David Peter McMahan wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to get R connected to Sybase on a Linux > machine. I'm relatively new to databases, > particularly the connectivity side. > Do I have to use RODBC and install ODBC support on the > system (a huge pain with Sybase, as you have to > install a scaled-down version of Sybase itself on the > system to get it to work with ODBC), or can I somehow > use DBI to do it. Other processes on the machine use > DBI/DBD to talk to the database, but I have no idea > how this would work with R. The file at > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.pdf makes > it seem like the DBI package is only a front-end, and > I would need something like "RSybase" to actually use > it. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Thank you, > Peter > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help