[R] Implementing R through Oracle

[elw at stderr.org]

> I have looked through all the ROracle documentation, R-help, R-dev, 
> Googled the world and still cannot figure out this issue. Everything I 
> read it is about connecting to an Oracle database and pulling data, 
> processing it, and then pushing it back to Oracle. I am running in 
> pl/sql code so I already have a Oracle session open. What I want to do 
> is from Oracle call R. I am having a mental challenge in seeing how this 
> can be done. Any words of wisdon?


EXTPROC in Oracle, calling an R CMD BATCH session?

Dirty but workable.

[p.s. I don't normally do Oracle but the stuff at

http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Oracle/DBA_tips/PL_SQL/PLSQL_1.shtml

shows basically how to do it...]


--elijah