> I would like to echo David's point even more strongly. Only a few of the > packages I have that use DBI actually have an SQL backend. The others really > only use part of the class structure and methods: DBIConnection, DBIDriver, > dbDisconnect. They use DBI so that I can present an API that is consistent > with the SQL based packages.
Good point. What packages are those? > I would be happy to see the upper part of the classes and methods moved > entirely into a separate package from all the SQL. (And it would make my > life easier if this part remained really stable once it is set.) I think the unfortunate reality of R package development is that currently splitting things up into many small packages actually creates more headaches that having packages that do slightly too much. Hadley -- Chief Scientist, RStudio http://had.co.nz/ _______________________________________________ R-sig-DB mailing list -- R Special Interest Group R-sig-DB@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-db
