[R] using DBI

chao gai
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:34:00 -0000

The way MySQL works, I use RMySQL to contact, which in turn uses DBI.
There is a library ROracle which, from the manual, works the same. Hence I
would start by looking at Roracle for the connection and proceed from there.

Kees

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:39, Bond, Stephen wrote:
> can anybody provide a reference to a document on using DBI and what is
> needed to make it work?
>
> I try: drv=dbDriver("Oracle")
>
> and it complains about not finding a function.
> The DBI.pdf does not require anything else installed, but looking at the
> archive I discovered there is more stuff to be installed.
> This is on Solaris 5.10 with a full Oracle install, so all Oracle libs
> are available and sqlplus works.
> I am trying to connect remotely to another Oracle instance.
>
> Thank you very much
> Stephen
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