All, I have a windows application in which data are written to MySQL and R analysis initiated by a VB frontend. After upgrading to DCOM 1.35, the analysis has become excruciatingly slow when processing a simple RODBC query. I am using DCOM 1.35 - I didn't have this difficulty prior to upgrading. I upgraded all other associated software with no change in performance: R 2.1 MySQL 4.1.10 MyODBC 3.51.11 I then installed DBI and RMySQL. I have been working with RMySQL using emacs. When establishing a connection, Rterm crashes with the error "instruction at "0x78001d0b" referenced memory at "0x00000000" the memory could not be read." Is anyone familiar with these problems? Any help is appreciated. R.Version() $platform [1] "i386-pc-mingw32" $arch [1] "i386" $os [1] "mingw32" $system [1] "i386, mingw32" $status [1] "" $major [1] "2" $minor [1] "0.1" $year [1] "2004" $month [1] "11" $day [1] "15" $language [1] "R" Joel Allen U.S. EPA