Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 6/27/2006 8:51 AM, Stephane Cruveiller wrote:
Dear R users,

I would like to query a MySQL database through R. I have installed
the latest required packages (RMySQL and DBI) in R (v2.3.1). A MySQL
server (v5.0.22) is running on my local machine but I can't initialize MYSQL
driver:
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 > library("RMySQL")
Loading required package: DBI
 > MySQL(max.con = 10, fetch.default.rec = 500, force.reload = F)
Error in new("MySQLDriver", Id = drvId) : unused argument(s) (Id ...)
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Could somebody tell me what I have missed?

I have never used RMySQL, but from the error message, this looks like an incompatibility between it and DBI, presumably because one is newer than the other.

I have always found it easier to use RODBC. Because it uses the more general ODBC interface, it may be slower than a package that is tuned to a particular database, but it works, which is a substantial advantage.
thanks for the hint... I  will give it a try very soon.

Duncan Murdoch


Stephane.
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