How to install ROracle package on Windows 7?

Question

I\'m trying to install ROracle package on my Windows 7 client. I have Oracle Instant client and Rtools installed, DBI package is istalled, OCI32_LIB environmental variable h

Answer 1

From http://jgilfillan.github.io/2016/05/28/how-to-install-roracle-in-windows-7/

Download binary from oracle: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/r/roracle/downloads/index.html

The run the following command in r, substituting the file path:

setwd('xxxxx')   # set to path of download
install.packages('ROracle_1.2-1.zip', repos = NULL)

Then load the library and use the package - you may have to change XXXX to whatever is in your TNS Names:

library('ROracle')
drv <- dbDriver("Oracle")
con <- dbConnect(drv, "USER GOES HERE", "PASSWORD GOES HERE", dbname='XXX')

test connection:

dbReadTable(con, 'DUAL')

Note that this has also been confirmed to work on Windows 10.