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XFM
Hello,

I use windows XP, I have RGui with R version 2.8.1
I try to connect to a microsoft SQL database with is on a remote shared disk.
I have downloaded RODBC and DBI that I would like to use after if its simple.

For the moment I just try to connect with the DB, using

odbcConnect(dsn, uid = "", pwd = "", ...)
Actually I donnot understand what is dsn. The doc says

character string. A registered data source name.

But seriously it is not enough...
Whats that? The path to the DB?
I need a more detailed example than the one which is in the doc.

Thank you

xavier

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: