[R] Problems Building RMySQL in Windows

["Héctor Villafuerte D."]

Philippe Grosjean wrote:

>Regarding the very few tests I did (RMySQL versus RODBC using a MySQL ODBC
>driver, but I do not remember details here), RMySQL is faster. It should be
>great, if you need to access a MySQL database from R, to try both and decide
>by yourself. If you do that, I am very interested by the results.
>
I would gladly do such comparison.... but I was unable to install RMySQL 
successfully (it keeps crashing R).
I think I'll have to stick with RODBC.
Thank you all, anyway.