How to read data from Microsoft Access .accdb database files into R?

Question

The RODBC documentation suggests it is possible, but I am not sure how to read data from a Microsoft Access (the new .accdb format) file with this package into

Answer 1

An alternative to directly accessing it might be to facilitate the data export from MS Access. At least the most recent MS Access allows to save the various export steps. One can then simply run the export of various queries / tables fairly quickly.

I know this does not answer the question, but might be a workaround if you do not get RODBC to run.