Yep this worked. I encountered this problem only after installing the ODBC connector plugin. Not sure if there's any correlation. I installed the MySQL 5.1.33 binary from http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/RMySQL
and that will fixed 'RMySQL was compiled with MySQL 5.0.67 but loading MySQL 5.1.44' , and stopped R from crashing. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Update-RMySQL-and-it-s-no-more-running-tp1561401p1580116.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.