[R] remote database queries

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sat Jul 18 22:04:33 CEST 2009


That depends on the database, not R.  I have done remote database
calls using MySQL from R.

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:04 PM, David Lubbers<lubrs at comcast.net> wrote:
> With good and faithful python remote database queries look something
> like this:
>
> url.urlopen("username/pssword at host",query)
>
> where query is something like "select * from table where ...."
>
> Does R support queries on remote hosts with username and password?
>
> What does a simple example look like?
>
> Thank you.
>
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