[R] Status of PostgreSQL using DBI?

[Duncan Murdoch]

Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Greetings - is there any update on a PostgreSQL driver for the DBI 
> package? If not, what's the currently-preferred method of creating a link 
> from a PostgreSQL database and R?

Some colleagues and I have been using RODBC with it successfully, from 
Windows and Linux machines.  The Windows ODBC driver is named 
psqlodbc-08_00_0101.zip, but I notice on Google there's a newer one now. 
  Not sure what you need to install on Linux.

Duncan Murdoch