RE: [R] JDBC DB access in R

2004-10-24 Thread Charles and Kimberly Maner
Hi. One thing you might also want to consider is the RDBI/RdbiPgSQL suite at GRASS found at http://grass.itc.it/statsgrass/r_and_dbms.html. These are PostgreSQL drivers. For MySQL, just use the DBI and RMySQL found on CRAN at http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html. I primarily

Re: [R] JDBC DB access in R

2004-10-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
y Frank Harrell. Hth, Dirk > -thx! > > > -Original Message- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 3:03 AM > To: zubin > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] JDBC DB access in R > > > The J is for Java (I

RE: [R] JDBC DB access in R

2004-10-23 Thread zubin
2004 3:03 AM To: zubin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] JDBC DB access in R The J is for Java (I presume, you did't actually say), and R is written in C. So `all' you need to do is to call a Java wrapper from R and call JDBC from that. I believe it has been done via RSJava.

Re: [R] JDBC DB access in R

2004-10-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The J is for Java (I presume, you did't actually say), and R is written in C. So `all' you need to do is to call a Java wrapper from R and call JDBC from that. I believe it has been done via RSJava. But if all you want to do is to retrieve a dataframe, isn't this rather hard work? On Fri, 22 O