[R] Problem Installing RODBC under RedHat 7.3

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

Sorry, but this is a question about the installation of unixODBC, not of
RODBC.  Several of us have test-installed RODBC on systems which do have
unixODBC installed.  That message indicates that the unixODBC libraries
cannot be found.

FWIW, the current version appears to be 2.2.3, and that comes with a
program isql to test ODBC connections.  That may help you debug this.

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Richards, Tom wrote:

> Hello:
>
> Using Redhat 7.3 and
>
> > version
>
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i686
> os       linux-gnu
> system   i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major    1
> minor    6.1
> year     2002
> month    11
> day      01
> language R
>
> I am trying to install the RODBC package.  Upon using
>
> > install.packages("RODBC")
>
> I get the following:
>
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking for library containing SQLTables... no
> configure: error: "no ODBC driver manager found"
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RODBC'
>
> Delete downloaded files (y/N)? y
>
> Warning message:
> Installation of package RODBC had non-zero exit status in: install.packages("RODBC")
>
> Earlier I retrieved an rpm file called unixODBC-2.1.1-1.i386.rpm
>
> and I used
>
> rpm -i unixODBC-2.1.1-1.i386.rpm
>
> and received no message of any kind, error or otherwise.
>
> What should I do next, Linux neophyte that I am?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tom
>
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