R help - Nov 2003 - Binaries for ROracle and V 1.8. needed

Hi

Claus Gwiggner wrote:
> > there is no Oracle Client on my machine (Redhat Linux 9.0/686i,
> > R1.8.0). I cannot thus compile the ROracle package.
You can in principle: Copy libs and the tnsconfig from the Oracle server
manually (no fun, but at least for Ora8i I managed this in some 30 min).
> > Who has a binary version of ROracle for my configuration?
I don't think that this will help you (at least it will NOT be robust!)
> > Is there another way to connect to an Oracle base?
In principle yes, but this is clearly the recommended way.

Regards

Michael
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Sorry for re-posting this message; the first one was lost in another
thread.
>Hi,
> there is no Oracle Client on my machine (Redhat Linux 9.0/686i, 
> R1.8.0). I cannot thus compile the ROracle package.
> I read the readme.client file and did: 
> I unziped the package ROracle and copied it into the R-library path.
> I get:
> >library(ROracle)
> Error in testRversion(descfields) : This package has not been
installed properly
> 
> 
> Who has a binary version of ROracle for my configuration?
> Is there another way to connect to an Oracle base?  
> 
> Thanks,
> Claus