Many thanks both for your feedback. It must be said that the install of RMySQL on Windows is much more convoluted than what R used us to...& it was working "off the shelve" (with the usual simple install.packkages()) in previous versions of R under windows, hence the confusion I think (mine at least)....
sorry for the unecessary noise Julien > From: ggrothendi...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:48:28 -0400 > To: leroy.bo...@gmail.com > CC: r-sig-db@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-sig-DB] Connect R to MySQL DB installed via XAMPP > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Boris Leroy <leroy.bo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Julien, > > > > yes I managed to connect R to MySQL through XAMPP, on the basis of the > > RODBC package, because the other packages did not work properly. > > The usual problem that users have with RMySQL is not that it does not > work properly but that users don't read the installation instructions > that come with it. Instead rely on outdated or wrong information that > they have found on the internet. The installation instructions are > in the INSTALL file in the source tar.gz and that file is also linked > to on the RMySQL CRAN home page > http://cran.r-project.org/package=RMySQL via the Installation: link. > > -- > Statistics & Software Consulting > GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. > tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP > email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-DB mailing list -- R Special Interest Group > R-sig-DB@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-db [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-DB mailing list -- R Special Interest Group R-sig-DB@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-db
