Hello, In 2006 Jeffrey Horner proposed [1,2] a patch to allow package level access to the connection API from C code. As I'm involved in a few packages that would benefit from this exposure, I felt I would warm the discussion up. Does this stand a chance of happening ? Romain [1] http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/devel/06/10/0565.html [2] http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=developers:r_connections_api -- Romain Francois Independent R Consultant +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr