adding RMySQL package to R fails (on Windows)?

Question

I can\'t figure out why my RMySQL package won\'t install - here\'s what I get:

> install.packages(\'RMySQL\',type=\'source\')
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Answer 1

As Marek said. There is no windows binary for this package. I had similar troubles on my Mac when I tried to install RPostgreSQL (because there's no binary for Mac) in the end I had to compile it on my own and modify several files.

For the MySQL part(if you don't know much about MySQL), you might want to use WAMP which is admittedly more than you need, but easy to install and to start and shut down.

For some compiling help you might be interested in Rtools

HTH

BTW: What kind of windows do you run (sry, if I missed it)