[R] Installing RMySQL on Windows XP for R 1.9.1

[Robert Wania]

Hi,

I'm thankful for any help on installing RMySQL on Windows XP for R 1.9.1

The thread
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/01/1021.html
already tried to discuss the matter. It concludes that Windows Sources for Packages are alike the Linux ones.

So I extracted the files from the RMySQL_*.tar.gz from
http://stat.bell-labs.com/RS-DBI/download/index.html
and stuffed them into a zip-file which was willingly taken by the install routine of my RGui. It said the well known "updating HTML
package descriptions" but when using library(RMySQL) the error "Error in testRversion(descfields) : This package has not been
installed properly. See the Note in ?library". Obviously the note wasn't very helpful and so I ask you for any help.

Regards
Robert