hi - thanks for the response, I've changed to using the ODBC driver and MySQL as i didn't want to be tied to using linux, and it seems there is no easily installable version of the postgres driver for windows. cheers, colin
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 21/01/2005 11:45 To: Combe, Colin Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] functions not found after installing DBI/RDBI packages Colin, Rdbi provides generic methods for working with databases. It requires a driver for a specific database, as well. Therefore, you will need to download and install RdbiPgSQL, also. Sean On Jan 21, 2005, at 4:58 AM, Combe, Colin wrote: > Hi, > I would like to be able to use R with a connection to a PostgreSQL > database. I am using R 2.0.1 on windows XP. I have tried installing > both the DBI and rDBI packages (which is better?) but in either case I > run into the same problem - when i try to use either the dbDriver or > dbConnect functions i'm told the function couldn't be found. Seems > like the packages aren't installing properly. I installed DBI from a > zip file and rDBI from bioconductor. > > Any clues as to where i'm going wrong? > > thanks, > colin > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
