Thank you Yaakov!
After installing libiodbc-devel, I was able to
install.packages('RODBC') without further difficulties (as you said).

Is the cygwin version of libiodbc-devel able to connect to the
user/system DSNs available under windows, or do I need to create new
DSNs and install new drivers under cygwin?

Most of the databases I would like to connect to (oracle/sql server
databases) use Windows Authentication (NTLM) to grant access.
Hopefully that kind of authentication will be still available in case
I need to install new odbc drivers under cygwin.
Please let me know if you recommend to redirect this question to a
different mailing list.

Thanks,
Dario

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 06:39 -0700, Dario Buttari wrote:
>> Right now I am still unable to install the RODBC package under cygwin-R.
>> I have no idea on how ODBC works under cygwin (does it communicate to
>> the windows ODBC drivers? do I need to install an ODBC manager under
>> cygwin?)
>
> The latter.  Install libiodbc-devel and its dependencies, and then you
> should be able to install.packages('RODBC') without further
> difficulties.
>
>
> Yaakov
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