Acknowledgements

The relational databases part of this manual is based in part on an earlier manual by Douglas Bates and Saikat DebRoy. The principal author of this manual was Brian Ripley.

Many volunteers have contributed to the packages used here. The principal authors of the packages mentioned are

DBI:

David A. James

dataframes2xls:

Guido van Steen

foreign:

Thomas Lumley, Saikat DebRoy, Douglas Bates, Duncan Murdoch and Roger Bivand

gdata:

Gregory R. Warnes

ncdf4:

David Pierce

rJava:

Simon Urbanek

RJDBC:

Simon Urbanek

RMySQL:

David James and Saikat DebRoy

RNetCDF:

Pavel Michna

RODBC:

Michael Lapsley and Brian Ripley

ROracle:

David A. James

RPostgreSQL:

Sameer Kumar Prayaga and Tomoaki Nishiyama

RSPerl:

Duncan Temple Lang

RSPython:

Duncan Temple Lang

RSQLite:

David A. James

SJava:

John Chambers and Duncan Temple Lang

WriteXLS:

Marc Schwartz

XLConnect:

Mirai Solutions GmbH

XML:

Duncan Temple Lang

Brian Ripley is the author of the support for connections.