I just got in from israel... sorry for the delay, Ill post later my functions for accesing the MySQL from windows I use it great and I have a perl program to populate the MySQL database from yahoo if anyone is interested ----- Original Message ----- From: "BBands" <BBands@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <tech-spec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 12:28 PM Subject: [tech-spec] Re: MySQL & R > Can't get DBI and RMySQL working on Windows. DBI and RODBC work fine, but I > have always been leery of ODBC and wanted to go direct to MySQL skipping the > intervening layer. Is ODBC really a viable way to go??? Any comments on > this? > > Another alternative is to access MySQL via Python which also works well. > Indeed running R via Rpy from Python seems like a really cool way to go. > > --jab >