[R] RODBC installation: error message

[gregory benison]

>
> One thing R could do better is to provide a standard way to view README and
> similar files before installing a package.  That might have helped here.
>

Agreed... right now, the R documentation points to a straightforward,
one-line way to download and install packages from the R command line,
but not to a similarly straightforward way to view a package's README
content (as far as I can tell).