> What I do hope for, of course, is that maintainers of packages based on > DBI will in due course implement the new function, so that my scripts are > portable between packages. I had mentioned ROracle and RJDBC (from which > my request arose), but I also use RMySQL, and I use all three of these > quite a bit. And of course there are several others.
That's what I hope for too! You can try out DBI::dbiCheckCompliance() to see how well a package is doing to the DBI standard. In the future, I hope to include more tests, so that it's easy to see where a package is lacking. Hadley -- 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