Message-ID: <20021120085141.A9793@jessie.research.bell-labs.com>
Date: 2002-11-20T13:51:41Z
From: David James
Subject: DBI driver for PostgreSQL?
In-Reply-To: <20021120032616.GA6849@sonny.eddelbuettel.com>; from edd@debian.org on Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:26:16PM -0600
That's correct. Rdbi.PGSQL requires Rdbi, not DBI.
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:31:37PM -0500, David James wrote:
> > Douglas Bates wrote:
> > > Is there an R DBI-compliant driver for PostgreSQL?
> >
> > Yes, as of DBI 0.1-2. See Tim Keitt's packages
> > Rdbi and Rdbi.PgSQL at sourceforge.com.
>
> I am confused. DBI is now at CRAN and at 0.1.4.
>
> Rdbi and Rdbi.PgSQL are still at 0.1.2 -- and it appears that Rdbi.PgSQL
> does not want to play with DBI. Is that right?
>
> > library(DBI)
> > library(Rdbi.PgSQL)
> Loading required package: Rdbi
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
> Could not load package Rdbi
> In addition: Warning message:
> There is no package called Rdbi' in: library(package, char = TRUE,
> logical = TRUE, warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts,
> Error in library(Rdbi.PgSQL) : .First.lib failed
>
> Should I patch Rdbi.PgSQL to work load DBI instead?
>
> Dirk
>
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