Hello, does anyone know how I would go about getting R to connect to OpenOffice's Base program (OOo's version of MS Access) such that I can retrieve data from the database and perform calculations and data analysis? I'm totally new to R and Base and I've looked at some documentation, but found only examples for R connecting to PostgreSQL and MySQL, but nothing for OOo's Base (there wasn't any examples for MS Access either even though it says that R can connect to MS Access). Is R even capable of this or am I just out of luck to use R and OOo's Base together? Thanks in advance. -ray --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Ray,
R can talk to Ms access very well through RODBC. Here is how:
mdbConnect<-odbcConnectAccess("C:\\temp\\demo.mdb");
sqlTables(mdbConnect);
demo<-sqlFetch(mdbConnect, "tblDemo");
odbcClose(mdbConnect);
rm(demo);
On 6/23/06, Ray D. <sixpackadelic@yahoo.com>
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> Hello, does anyone know how I would go about getting R to connect to
> OpenOffice's Base program (OOo's version of MS Access) such that I
can
> retrieve data from the database and perform calculations and data
> analysis? I'm totally new to R and Base and I've looked at some
> documentation, but found only examples for R connecting to PostgreSQL and
> MySQL, but nothing for OOo's Base (there wasn't any examples for MS
Access
> either even though it says that R can connect to MS Access). Is R even
> capable of this or am I just out of luck to use R and OOo's Base
> together? Thanks in advance.
>
> -ray
>
>
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You have not told us your platform nor version of OO (nor what 'it' is which 'says that R can connect to MS Access'). R can certainly connect to MS Access on Windows via RODBC, which does come with Access examples. I think though that it is unrealistic to claim that Base is 'OOo's version of MS Access': it seems to be a lot less than that even in version 2.0. Base 2.0 comes with an HSQLDB DBMS, but Base is not itself a relational DBMS as Access is. Both R and Base can act as ODBC clients, which may help if you use Base to store data in a fully-fledged RDBMS such as MySQL or SQLite. On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Ray D. wrote:> Hello, does anyone know how I would go about getting R to connect to > OpenOffice's Base program (OOo's version of MS Access) such that I can > retrieve data from the database and perform calculations and data > analysis? I'm totally new to R and Base and I've looked at some > documentation, but found only examples for R connecting to PostgreSQL > and MySQL, but nothing for OOo's Base (there wasn't any examples for MS > Access either even though it says that R can connect to MS Access). Is > R even capable of this or am I just out of luck to use R and OOo's Base > together? Thanks in advance. > > -ray > > > --------------------------------- > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
You should download ODBC Driver and use RODBC Package; Best Regards. Juan Antonio Bre?a Moral. Advanced Marketing Ph.D. , URJC, Spain (Now) Industrial Organisation Engineering, ICAI, Spain. Technical Computer Programming Engineering, ICAI, Spain Web: http://www.juanantonio.info Mobile: +34 655970320 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/R-connectivity-to-database-t1837933.html#a5020665 Sent from the R help forum at Nabble.com.