[R] R and Sybase

[Peter McMahan]

Hi,
I'm trying to get R connected to Sybase on a Linux
machine.  I'm relatively new to databases,
particularly the connectivity side.
Do I have to use RODBC and install ODBC support on the
system (a huge pain with Sybase, as you have to
install a scaled-down version of Sybase itself on the
system to get it to work with ODBC), or can I somehow
use DBI to do it.  Other processes on the machine use
DBI/DBD to talk to the database, but I have no idea
how this would work with R.  The file at
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.pdf makes
it seem like the DBI package is only a front-end, and
I would need something like "RSybase" to actually use
it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Peter