similar to: R and database access

A consensus seems to emerge : R would excel to exploratory work on small/middle-sized datasets, while SAS would be able to munch much larger datasets. However, I see the "size" problem as a red herring. The objects that have to stay "in core" are usually much smaller than the dataset. For example, for problems involving fixed-effects linear models, you need only some

Hi, I would like to be able to use R with a connection to a PostgreSQL database. I am using R 2.0.1 on windows XP. I have tried installing both the DBI and rDBI packages (which is better?) but in either case I run into the same problem - when i try to use either the dbDriver or dbConnect functions i'm told the function couldn't be found. Seems like the packages aren't installing

Dear R-Users, I store my data in an Postgres-table. I can connect with Rdbi.PgSQL, that is no the problem. The problem is the NA-Values. No-data-values are coded as -9999 in the table. But when I extrct them with any SELECT-statement, the -9999-values are treated as normal vectors. How can I tell R not to fetch the datasets containig -9999-values? thanks for your help stephan -- Linux: the

I've been putting together a package that defined generic methods for database access. The packages is called "Rdbi." It borrows as much as possible from existing database packages / proposals. I'd like to start a discussion about the proposed interface. Here's what I've come up with so far: # # Rdbi: connectionMethods.R # dbConnect <- function(dbObj, ...)

The only database access package I see on CRAN is DBI. But is there a PostgreSQL driver for it yet? (where?) There is no sign of an RPgSQL package on CRAN either. What to do? Thanks, Bruce L. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or

Sorry for the simple question: What is the "standard" package for interfacing with PostGreSQL (most up-to-date)? There appear to be at least three with different names: Rdbi.PgSQL RdbiPgSQL (available as part of BioConductor) RPgSQL (On the home page, no longer maintained in favor or Rdbi) The R and database developer page (http://developer.r-project.org/db/) was last updated in

Hi, i found tis message in the archive and have got the same problems ? John, perhaps you have found now a way install RPgSQL for windows2000, or anybody other ? many thanks for advance christian [SNIP] I wonder whether anyone has succeeded in building either the RPgSQL or the Rdbi.PGSQL and Rdbi packages for Windows. If so, would you be willing to share either the binary package(s) or

Hello List, I would like to connect to a postgreSQL database on a remote server and I am wondering what is the best package to do that. I have just installed RpgSQL, RPostgreSQL, Rdbi and RODBC. The handiest to me is RPostgreSQL but I don't see how to connect to a remote server with it. For sure I can connect to remote server with RODBC, but since I am on a Mac OSX 10.6, I have quite

Hello, I've been trying every now and then to find a cross operating system solution that would let me access PostgreSQL (and PostGIS) from R, or to access R from PostgreSQL. I know of pl/r, which accomplishes the latter, but has yet to be successfully ported to Windows. Similarly, I've tried to use Rdbi and DBI, but I haven't had luck with those on Windows either for connecting to

Hi, I just installed ROracle and RDBI. The connection to the database seems to work also. My problem is when I am selection rows that really exist in the database, it is returning nothing. Where should I look to see what could be my problem? Thank you very much, Mathieu > drv <- dbDriver("Oracle") > summary(drv, verbose=TRUE) <OraDriver:(6721)> Driver name:

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 ?

Hello, I have installed the ROracle and DBI packages, and I want to access an Oracle database that is not on the same machine as the one I am running R on. I can access the database remotely with perl DBI and Java JDBC. Does anyone know if this is possible using R DBI/ROracle ? I have looked through the documentation and also tried to guess at things which might work, but with no success. I

I have been using RODBC for a while with no complaints (R 2.0.1 patched under WinXP), then I saw a link (http://grass.itc.it/statsgrass/r_and_dbms.html) showing that Rdbi claims to run a query in 5 seconds that takes RODBC 4.3 minutes. That was hard enough for me to believe that I wanted to try some tests myself, but I cannot get Rdbi to connect to my ODBC database. Here is what works for RODBC

one more bit of information about this problem. If I start R as the user "postgres" i dont have the segmentation fault. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:19:39 -0500 (EST) From: Rafael A. Irizarry <ririzarr at jhsph.edu> Reply-To: rafa at jhu.edu To: "R-Help (E-mail)" <r-help at r-project.org> Subject: rdbi segmentation fault hi! i

Hi all, I tried to install the Rdbi_0.1-2.tar.gz and Rdbi.PgSQL_0.1-2 package. The Rdbi_0.1-2.tar.gz installed fine but the Rdbi.PgSQL_0.1-2 had some problems. The compilation routine tried to find a header called libpq-fe.h but did not find it in the standard locations. I searched through the computer but did not find a file called in this way either. What should I do to successuffly

I can use the Rdbi package to connect to a PostGreSQL server fine but when I use the dbDisconnect(), I get a segmentation error and it throws me out of R. I'm using RH7.2, R1.4.1, Rdbi 0.1-2, and Rdbi.PgSQL 0.1-2. Anyone else seen anything like this and have an possible answer? Andrew Schuh -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing

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

Dear list members, I wonder whether anyone has succeeded in building either the RPgSQL or the Rdbi.PGSQL and Rdbi packages for Windows. If so, would you be willing to share either the binary package(s) or instructions about how to set up the configure scripts? My preliminary efforts to get things going under Windows 2000 haven't met with much success. Thanks, John

One quirk to be watched is the use of connections to the DBMS via the Unix sockets vs ports. The PostgreSQL driver bundled with unixODBC will use Unix sockets to `localhost', but this driver seems unreliable (see the ChangeLog). The current driver will only use a TCP/IP port, and to use that needs postmaster started with the -i flag (which is not the default) and with tcp/ip

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