On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:40 AM, David Marra <publicgene...@me.com> wrote:
> Everyone, > > I would like to access from R running in OS X 10.5 a Microsoft SQL database > that is running in Windows on a Parallels virtual machine. > > The Parallels VM and the OS X are on the same Mac. A DSN is set up on > Windows. Running queries on the VM itself with the Windows version of R > using the RODBC package commands odbcConnect and sqlQuery works just fine. > > Does anyone know how this can be done? How to make R in OS X aware of the > Windows DSN? What ODBC driver works for OS X to get access to the Windows > VM? > The VM is a remote host, as far as OS X is concerned. I think, then, that you will need to set up ODBC on OS X to connect to the remote host. Sean [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac