On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Raphael Saldanha <saldanha.plan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like > to import this dataset direct into R, without saving the file on disk > (for using the most updated file), You don't really have much choice - I'm certain that the mdb-tools won't read from a remote ftp server and I suspect RODBC won't either. > I don't know if I have the mdb-tool on my system, may is this. If so, > how should I install this? sudo apt-get install mdbtools should get you what you need to Hmisc to work. It works for me - but you do have to download the data file. It won't work via an FTP connection. One possibility is to set up an FTP-based file system - basically an operating system 'hook' that presents the FTP site as if it was a local set of files. Have a look under the 'connect to server' options on the ubuntu menus. The real solution would be for the data to be supplied from a database server at their end, and you could get the latest data using RMySQL or whatever. Note that I can't find any geographic coordinate info in the mdb you referenced - if this is, as I suspect, an ESRI Geodatabase, then you won't be able to get polygons or point locations. Barry ______________________________________________ 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.
