[R] Reading MS Access Database Files?

Andrew Perrin aperrin at socrates.berkeley.edu
Thu Mar 1 22:38:22 CET 2001


I've never seen any non-Windows software capable of reading Access files
directly, although I'm happy to be corrected on that.  You can, though,
run Access on another machine or on a VMWare/Win4Lin subsystem and then
either attach via RODBC or write the data to some more useful format (say,
tab-delimited) and go from there.

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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology  
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
        aperrin at socrates.berkeley.edu - aperrin at igc.apc.org

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Richard A. Bilonick wrote:

> Does anyone know of a way to convert or read MS Access database files under Linux
> so I can access them in R? I had contacted  Concdeptual Software about DBMS/Copy
> and they assured me that the Linux version could handle Access files. Of course,
> when I purchased it then they said that it couldn't read MS Access files.
> 
> Rick Bilonick
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