R can talk to MySQL via the RMySQL and RODBC packages: which is easier will depend on your infrastructure, including your OS.
You haven't even told us your OS. But the 'R Data Import/Export Manual' and 'An Introduction to R', both of which ship with R, are the manuals to start with, as well as the package documentation. On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, hoogeebear wrote: > > Hi, > > Im new to "R", I am currently doing a proect for college, in which questions > are answered and the results are sent to a mySql database. Essentially I > want R to read from this database and generate graphs e.t.c. Dies anyone > know of a good website where I can learn the different commands needed to do > this? I have looked around on the net but cannot seem to find anything. Hope > to hear from someone soon. > > Best Regards, > > John. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
