similar to: requireNamespace() questions

Full_Name: K?re Jonsson Version: 2.10 OS: WinXP Submission from: (NULL) (85.225.178.169) I made a brand new installation of R 2.10 in two machines and got the same problem. Machine 1 is Win XP on metal installation machine 2 is virtual in VMWare running a hacky OS named Tiny XP in which any Microsoft windows XP siftware always successfully is installed. Operation 1. Add package RMySQL from

Hi R users, I am a beginner trying to connect to PostgreSQL using R When I give the following command drv<-dbDriver("PostgreSQL") I am getting the following error Error in do.call(as.character(drvName), list(...)) : could not find function "PostgreSQL" I have installed PostgreSQL 8.1 in my system. I am currently using R 2.3.1. Any help would be

Hi all, I would like the following code to work, but it doesn't: library(DBI) library(RODBC) m <- dbDriver("RODBC") # Example for dbConnect(DBI), causes error m <- dbDriver("ODBC") # Example for DBIDriver-class(DBI), causes error The errors are: Error in do.call(as.character(drvName), list(...)) : could not find function "RODBC" (substitute

Hi, i am trying to connect to a DB2 server using the DBI library. getData <- function() { driver <- dbDriver("DB2") conn <- dbConnect(driver,"server","uname","pword") data <- dbSendquery(conn, "select etc.") } When I run the function, i get the error > data <- getData() Error in

Should functions or the user be responsible for coercing an S4 object argument containing the proper object (and thus should below be considered a bug in the packages or not)? The example is with RSQLite but the same thing happens with RMySQL, and other DBI packages. > library("RSQLite") Loading required package: DBI > m <- dbDriver("SQLite") > con <-

Hello everyone! Congratulations by this gorgeous software. My name is Germán Carrillo, I'm writting from Colombia. I don't have much experience with R, reason why I use the R-GUI (version 2.5.1) on Windows. I have some problems with DBI package, I want to connect to PostgreSQL database but I don't know the way to do it. I was reading the DBI manual and I tried write in my R Console

(I am not sure if this is a bug or a request for a more understandable warning, or possible something obvious I should be posting on r-help.) I am trying to coerce an new class object to be a DBIConnection and it does not work the way I think it should: R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27) ... > require("RMySQL") # or require("RSQLite") Loading required package: RMySQL Loading

Hi, I'm running Debian (Sid), Postgres (7.3.4) and R (1.8.1). I get the following error when I tri to use DBI >library("DBI") > p <- dbDriver("PostgreSQL") Error in do.call(as.character(drvName), list(...)) : couldn't find function "PostgreSQL" Is there any other package I need in order to interface between R and Postgres ?

Folks, I failed to create a connection to the database under MySQL DBMS in the R system via RMySQL's method dbConnection(...). My setup is as follows: Microsoft Windows XP 5.1.2600 MySQL 4.1.9 R 2.0.1 DBI 0.1-8 RMySQL 0.5-5 Both of DBI and RMySQL packages were downloaded from bell lab: http://stat.bell-labs.com/RS-DBI/download/index.html My case in R is as follows: > library(DBI)

Since there doesn't appear to be an RMySQL rpm for SuSE 8.*, does anyone know if the 7.3 version will work with the SuSE 8.2 rpms of R and DBI? The package installs without complaint, but when I try to run con <- dbConnect(dbDriver("MySQL"),dbname="test") I get the error Error in dbConnect(dbDriver("MySQL")) : couldn't find function

Hello, I installed RGui 2.5.1 and package DBI on Windows XP and tried to connect to Oracle database which is on a Linux server. When I tried to use dbDriver("Oracle"), I got an error as follows: > drv <- dbDriver("Oracle") Error in do.call(as.character(drvName), list(...)) : could not find function "Oracle" > Could anyone tell me how

I get the following error trying to connect to a MySQL database: > library(RMySQL) Loading required package: DBI > drv<-dbDriver("MySQL") > con<-dbConnect(drv, user="hothand", password=xxx, host="localhost", dbname="hh03"); Error in mysqlNewConnection(drv, ...) : RS-DBI driver: (could not connect hothand at localhost on dbname

Hi all, This is a potentially very stupid question about MySQL <-> R interaction, but I have not been able to solve it. I'm just trying to connect R to my MySQL databse, and gets this: > library(RMySQL) Loading required package: methods > m <- dbDriver("MySQL") > con <- dbConnect(m,group="testdb") Process R segmentation fault at Wed Oct 16 07:04:30

I am a newbie in R and want to use MySQL database. Here is what I have and done. R 1.8.0 mysql 4.0.16 Both running in Windows XP. I download the RMySQL.zip from the internet and used the Packages installer in the RGui to install RMySQL. I also installed DBI packages. I ran the following and got the error. > mgr<-dbDriver("MySQL") Error in dbDriver("MySQL") :

Hi. I frequently use RMySQL package to interface R with MySQL databases. I was having a try with package DBI and I got the following error: > library(RMySQL) > library(DBI) > drv <- dbDriver("MySQL") > ch <- dbConnect(drv, dbname="mydb", user="myuser", password="mypasswd") > ibm <- dbGetQuery(ch,"select * from table where

hello, if i load the RSQLite package in addition to the RPostgreSQL package, i get various errors when trying to use RPostgreSQL functions. here is an example transcript showing one such error: ========================================================== R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) [...] > packageVersion('RPostgreSQL') [1] 0.3.2 > packageVersion('RSQLite') [1] 0.11.1

I have justed upgraded R v1.7.0 on Windows NT 4 and have installed the latest RMySQL (version 0.5-1)and DBI (version 0.1-5) packages. When I issue the following commands (tactfully adjusted) R just crashes and disappears, any ideas? require(RMySQL) m <- dbDriver("MySQL") con <- dbConnect(m, dbname="xxx", user="xxx", password="xxx",

Full_Name: Apfel Schmied Version: 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) OS: WinXP SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (134.106.122.139) RMySQL Version: 0.7-2 DBI Version: 0.2-4 MySQL Version: 5.1.30 (Enviroment Variable MYSQL_HOME is set) Updated R from 2.60 to 2.8.1. Now Gui.exe hangs up (100% CPU Useage) when requesting data from a mysql database. Example Code:

I'm having trouble getting RMySQL to load. I was able to build it and install it (RMySQL_0.5-11.tar.gz). I was also able to build and install mysql-5.0.37. I've read many postings about this but have not found a mention of my particular problem (some closely related). I get the "unable to load shared library, no such file" error, but all the files do exist, RMySQL.so and

Dear All, I haven't seen any further comments about the problem that John Marsland first noted and that I also have: > library(DBI) > library(RMySQL) Warning message: DLL attempted to change FPU control word from 8001f to 9001f > mgr <- dbDriver("MySQL") > con <- dbConnect(mgr, host="localhost", dbname="marketing") upon which R dies...