A package to access MySQL databases from R is now available from the development section of CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/ and its mirrors). This implements a proposed common interface between S like languages and various relational databases. Details about this proposal can be obtained from http://www.omegahat.org/contrib/RS-DBI/. Comments and bugs about the package should be reported to either saikat at stat.wisc.edu. Comments about the SDBI interface should be addressed to omega-devel at omegahat.org and/or r-devel at r-project.org. Saikat DebRoy -- Department of Statistics Email: saikat at stat.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin - Madison Phone: (608) 263 5948 1210 West Dayton Street Fax: (608) 262 0032 Madison, WI 53706-1685 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._