Have you looked at ROracle on CRAN? I don't know if it will work to a remote Solaris database, as we have no need of that.
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Luke Whitaker wrote: > > [sorry, but this is a re-post - I forgot to set the subject line > the first time around] > > Hello, > > I would like to access an Oracle database running on Solaris from > R on my linux desktop. I have had a look at the R Data Import/Export > manual, and downloaded RODBC and unixODBC, but I am still quite confused > about how to proceed. It appears to me that I still need to get an Oracle > ODBC driver, and the only one I can find is from Easysoft for 880 euros, > which is not available for this project. > > Is there any free software which will enable R on linux to talk to Oracle > on Solaris (both reading and writing data) ? > > My R setup is as follows: > > platform i386-pc-linux-gnu > arch i386 > os linux-gnu > system i386, linux-gnu > status > major 1 > minor 5.1 > year 2002 > month 06 > day 17 > language R > > Thanks, > > Luke Whitaker. > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
