First of all, since this is my first posting, I would like to thank anybody who works/has worked on R, and made it such a beautiful open source package! My question is: how do I create a new Access database with R? I need a channel before I can do anything, but if the mdb-file doesn't exist, I can't connect to it with odbcConnectAccess. I've looked at the RODBC.pdf on CRAN, searched the mailing-lists, and looked at test.R file in the package. But probably I've overlooked something. It is of course possible to keep a clean new mdb-file somewhere and then copy it to the required directory with: shell("copy EmptyDB.mdb NewLocation.mdb") But that isn't very elegant... Thanks in advance, Uri Shimron *************************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidentia...{{dropped}}