Re: [GENERAL] R and postgres

2006-11-07 Thread Joe Conway
Reece Hart wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 00:22 -0800, Joe Conway wrote: I think you want this: http://bioconductor.org/packages/1.9/bioc/html/RdbiPgSQL.html The bioconductor project is now maintaining RdbiPgSQL. I think many people also use RODBC to connect R with Postgres. I almost sent you

Re: [GENERAL] R and postgres

2006-11-07 Thread Reece Hart
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 00:22 -0800, Joe Conway wrote: I think you want this: http://bioconductor.org/packages/1.9/bioc/html/RdbiPgSQL.html The bioconductor project is now maintaining RdbiPgSQL. I think many people also use RODBC to connect R with Postgres. Joe- I almost

Re: [GENERAL] R and postgres

2006-11-07 Thread TJ O'Donnell
I use RODBC which is available from http://cran.r-project.org/ I'm not sure if this will do what you want, or whether it has the features of Rdbi you need, but it gets the job done for me. I can open a "channel", execute a SQL statement (typically a Select) and read the results back into a R dataf

Re: [GENERAL] R and postgres

2006-11-07 Thread Joe Conway
Reece Hart wrote: I'd like to get R to talk to postgresql, but my head's spinning among a web of broken links, way outdated web pages, project deprecation announcements and a terrible signal:link ratio. Rdbi and RdbiPgSQL seem to be the answer, despite both being apparently defunct projects.

Re: [GENERAL] R and postgres

2006-11-06 Thread Ben
I assume you've seen pl/R? http://www.joeconway.com/plr/ On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Reece Hart wrote: I'd like to get R to talk to postgresql, but my head's spinning among a web of broken links, way outdated web pages, project deprecation announcements and a terrible signal:link ratio. Rdbi and Rdbi

Re: [GENERAL] R and postgres

2006-11-06 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Monday 06 November 2006 07:38 pm, Reece Hart wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 19:13 -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > You might want to take a look at PL/R a procedural language for R in > > Postgres. > > http://www.joeconway.com/plr/ > > PL/R is indeed neat, but I want to go the other way: within R

Re: [GENERAL] R and postgres

2006-11-06 Thread Reece Hart
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 19:13 -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote: You might want to take a look at PL/R a procedural language for R in Postgres. http://www.joeconway.com/plr/ PL/R is indeed neat, but I want to go the other way: within R, fetch data from postgres and manipulate it (plot, histo

Re: [GENERAL] R and postgres

2006-11-06 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Monday 06 November 2006 04:58 pm, Reece Hart wrote: > I'd like to get R to talk to postgresql, but my head's spinning among a > web of broken links, way outdated web pages, project deprecation > announcements and a terrible signal:link ratio. > > Rdbi and RdbiPgSQL seem to be the answer, despite

[GENERAL] R and postgres

2006-11-06 Thread Reece Hart
I'd like to get R to talk to postgresql, but my head's spinning among a web of broken links, way outdated web pages, project deprecation announcements and a terrible signal:link ratio. Rdbi and RdbiPgSQL seem to be the answer, despite both being apparently defunct projects. What is the Right