It was my understanding that .Rdata files were not very portable, and do not natively handle queries. Otherwise we'd all just use .RData files instead of farming the work out to SQL drivers & external libraries, and colleagues who use, e.g. SAS or SPSS would also have no trouble with them.
Sincerely, KeithC. -----Original Message----- From: b.rowling...@googlemail.com [mailto:b.rowling...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 12:25 PM To: Gabor Grothendieck Cc: kMan; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Serverless databases in R On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > SQLite and H2. These databases are included right in the driver > packages RSQLite and RH2 so there is nothing extra to install except > you must have Java installed in the case of H2. Also both are > supported by sqldf. Plain old .RData files could also be considered as cross-platform, serverless databases. I think the original poster needs to be a bit more explicit, perhaps explaining what he wants these things for. -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman ______________________________________________ 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.
