[BioC] RdbiPgSQL problem: SET_VECTOR_ELT() can only be applied to a 'list', not a 'character'

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

This is most likely a bug in RdbiPgSQL, related to more stringent  
check of SET_VECTOR_ELT (C code) in R.

It is probably easy to fix, but I don't have access to a PostGres  
database, so I would be unable to check.

Contact the maintainer and complain :)

Kasper

On Apr 25, 2009, at 2:26 , Philip Lijnzaad wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm having difficulty using RdbiPgSQL. This is using R 2.9.1,  
> RdbiPgSQL
> 1.18.0, both R client and server at 8.3.
>
> If I do
>
>  conn=dbConnect(PgSQL(),
>                 host=db.host,
>                 dbname=db.name,
>                 user=db.user,
>                 password=db.password)
>
>
> I keep getting this:
>
>  SET_VECTOR_ELT() can only be applied to a 'list', not a 'character'
>  Calls: dbConnect ... dbConnectionInfo ->
> dbConnectionInfo.PgSQL.conn -> .Call
>
> This used to work fine under R 2.7
>
> I see that the RdbiPgSQL compiles properly, but is the actual  
> connectivity
> against a real database really checked? In an ideal world this would  
> be the
> case, as the current version is unusuable.
>
> This is very unfortunate, since we really rely on this code.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome.
>                                                                       Philip
>
> -- 
> Philip Lijnzaad, PhD
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