Hi, I'm trying to establish a connection to a MySQL database, and am using the rodbc package for it. This is in a GNU/Debian Linux box, with the corresponding Debian unstable packages. I can login to my MySQL databases from any shell and directory, so the problem is probably not there. Here's an example of what I'm doing:
R> odbcConnect("test", uid="myusername", pwd="mypassword") [1] -1 Warning messages: 1: [RODBC] ERROR: state IM002, code 0, message [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified 2: ODBC connection failed in: odbcDriverConnect(st, case = case, believeNRows = believeNRows) The error is apparently from unixodbc, and googling for it I found that somebody solved it by specifying a default driver in a odbc.ini file. Can somebody please tell whether this is the right approach, and if so, how to write that specification? I saw that one might do this in a ~/.odbc.ini (i.e. the user's config file) file. Best wishes, -- Sebastian Luque ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html