Alle 22:55, venerdì 29 settembre 2006, John Fox ha scritto: > As I understand it, RODBC isn't useful on non-Windows systems, since the > necessary ODBC drivers aren't available. (Someone will correct me, I'm > sure, if I don't have that entirely straight.) The RODBC package is used in > the Rcmdr to read Excel and some other files under Windows; in the latest > version of the Rcmdr, you won't even see this menu item in non-Windows > systems.
As a matter of fact RODBC can be profitably used under *nix OS together with unixODBC to connect to many DBs. I've been using RODBC with unixODBC on linux, freebsd and win xp to connect smoothly to postgresql, mysql and oracle (somewhat tricky to me under *nix, you need ** to buy ** a driver) and I know that connections are possible to many other *nix DBs under *nix itself. Ciao Vittorio ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.