Stephen -
You can modify your path on the fly with Sys.setenv:
Sys.setenv(PATH=paste(Sys.getenv('PATH'),'/sw/bin',sep=':'))
should make executables installed in /sw/bin available to R.
- Phil Spector
Statistical Computing Facility
Department of Statistics
UC Berkeley
spec...@stat.berkeley.edu
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, stephen sefick wrote:
Frank,
I have tried to use this package, but because I am using fink to
install packages the mdbtools binary they are not accessible by the
function from within R. I checked this by just trying to call it with
the system function and R returned /bin/sh not found. I can access
the binary from the terminal, so the /sw/bin directory where mdbtools
is located is in my PATH- at least at a terminal.
thanks for the help,
Stephen Sefick
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Frank E Harrell
Jr<f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
The R Hmisc package interfaces these tools - see its mdb.get function.
Frank
Marc Schwartz wrote:
On Aug 14, 2009, at 10:29 AM, stephen sefick wrote:
I have a geodatabase and would like to import it into GRASS, but it is
in .mbf. I use mac and linux, and don't have access to access on the
machines that I normally use. I do have access to access at school,
but I would like to find a way around this if possible. Any thoughts,
comments, or suggestions would be welcome.
thanks,
I think that on Linux and OSX, from an open source perspective, the only
option is to use MDB Tools, though I have seen mixed reports of success,
including some threads in the R-Help archives. It also appears that there
has been no development on the package for about 5 years, as the current
version (0.6pre1) dates from 2004. That may suggest limited, if any,
compatibility with recent versions of Access file formats.
You can download the source tarball here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdbtools/
For OSX, it is available via MacPorts:
http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/databases/mdbtools/Portfile
and for major Linux distributions, there are typically pre-compiled
binaries available via the standard repos and installation tools (eg. yum
and apt-get).
There was also some work by the OO.org folks a while back to embed MDB
Tools in OpenOffice, but I am not aware of the current state of the project
or if it is even active any longer.
There is a commercial option from Actual Technologies:
http://www.actualtechnologies.com/product_access.php
which appears to provide an ODBC driver for Access on OSX. The page
focuses on the use of either Excel or FileMaker Pro with the driver.
However, you may be able to get it to work with RODBC.
I use Actual's ODBC driver for Oracle on OSX via RODBC, since Oracle has
not seen fit to provide a free one as they do for Linux and have been very
pleased. It was easy to install and configure, so take that for what it's
worth.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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