You have not told us your platform nor version of OO (nor what 'it' is which 'says that R can connect to MS Access'). R can certainly connect to MS Access on Windows via RODBC, which does come with Access examples.
I think though that it is unrealistic to claim that Base is 'OOo's version of MS Access': it seems to be a lot less than that even in version 2.0. Base 2.0 comes with an HSQLDB DBMS, but Base is not itself a relational DBMS as Access is. Both R and Base can act as ODBC clients, which may help if you use Base to store data in a fully-fledged RDBMS such as MySQL or SQLite. On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Ray D. wrote: > Hello, does anyone know how I would go about getting R to connect to > OpenOffice's Base program (OOo's version of MS Access) such that I can > retrieve data from the database and perform calculations and data > analysis? I'm totally new to R and Base and I've looked at some > documentation, but found only examples for R connecting to PostgreSQL > and MySQL, but nothing for OOo's Base (there wasn't any examples for MS > Access either even though it says that R can connect to MS Access). Is > R even capable of this or am I just out of luck to use R and OOo's Base > together? Thanks in advance. > > -ray > > > --------------------------------- > > > [[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 > -- 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 https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
