> I feel like I must be missing something rather plain, but I don't get > it. how is one supposed to use R as a PgSQL client on Windows? Assume > my windows desktop is on the same network as a PgSQL server, and I just > need to use R to connect and pull down some data. > > The thing that is confusing me is that RODBC doesn't seem to know > anything about PgSQL, in that odbcDataSources(type = "all") only returns > info about MS/Excell/Access/dBase stuff. What does it take to get RODBC > to deal with PgSQL?
There's an odbc-to-pgsql driver for windows that will need to be installed. You can find that here: http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/odbc/versions/ Then, you set up your connection to postgresql via the Control Panel, under Administrative Tools, then Data Sources. Then connect to that with R. [I have mostly done this under Linux - it has been quite a while since I've needed to do it on Windows, but this is a broadly correct outline of the necessary steps.] --e ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
