Message-ID: <m2r7nd9rcx.fsf@ganymede.ammp.or.tz>
Date: 2004-11-01T21:44:30Z
From: David Whiting
Subject: ms access --> mysql --> R in Linux
In-Reply-To: <1099342880.22390.20.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at medanalytics.com> writes:
[...]
>
> The issue at this point (among many I suspect) is that the mdbtools
> package is read-only to Access, though there are longer term plans to
> enable write functionality. So for the time being at least, there is no
> actual management ability to modify existing tables and queries.
>
I've just checked some recent mailing list posts and it seems that
write/update support for Jet3 (access 97) databases is underway. At
least parts of it are described as "primitive", but there is hope...
--
David Whiting
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.