[R] RODBC: missing files? (Re: RODBC: how to set the data-source?)

Hello, I stracet the R session when trying to connect to the database. Strange, that /etc/odbc.ini first should be opened with Append-mode: open(/etc/odbc.ini, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) open(/etc/odbc.ini, O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3,

Re: [R] RODBC: missing files? (Re: RODBC: how to set the data-source?)

Oliver Bandel oliver at first.in-berlin.de writes: [...] I assume for each entry in /etc/passwd until the one that os looked for, /etc/odbc.ini is opened once... ...maybe I should test this hypothesis... looks strange. [...] No, my loginname is in line 31 of /etc/passwd. oli...@siouxsie:~$