Installing RMySQL in mavericks

Question

I am having trouble installing RMySQL. I am trying to install it from its source in the following way:

install.packages(\"/path/to/package/RMySQL_0.9-3.tar.g         


        

Answer 1

I followed the above instructions:

brew install mysql

Then in RStudio:

Sys.setenv(PKG_CPPFLAGS = "-I/usr/local/include/mysql")
Sys.setenv(PKG_LIBS = "-L/usr/local/lib -lmysqlclient")
install.packages("RMySQL", type="source")

It gives the error:

In file included from RS-MySQL.c:22: 
./RS-MySQL.h:32:10: fatal error: 'mysql.h' file not found
#include 
         ^ 1 error generated. 
make: *** [RS-MySQL.o] Error 1 
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘RMySQL’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/RMySQL’

To solve it, change the last command in RStudio to:

install.packages("RMySQL", 
    configure.args="--with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/bin/  
    --with-mysql-inc=/usr/local/include/mysql  
    --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/lib", type="source")

Hope this helps.