January 2006
Beginner
467 pages
14h 21m
English
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Access Databases Directly from Excel or R
If you store your data in a database, this hack shows you how to fetch it from R or Excel.
In “Move Data from a Database to Excel” [Hack #19] , I show several ways to export data from a database program into an Excel spreadsheet. This hack shows you another way to access data using ODBC (which stands for Open Database Connectivity). ODBC provides a standard interface for different programs to connect to databases, and it allows you to use the right tool for each job. As shown in Figure 4-5, you can do data selection and manipulation using SQL and then analyze the data in a tool such as R or Excel.
Figure 4-5. ODBC
To use ODBC for MySQL, first you must install the MySQL ODBC drivers on your computer. (MyODBC is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other platforms.) You can download the files from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/3.51.html. The simplest way to install MyODBC is to download the precompiled binaries and then run the install program to install the drivers.
If you don’t want to use MySQL at all, you might not have to. If you have Microsoft Access installed on your Windows XP machine, you should already have the Microsoft Access ODBC drivers installed. Plus, the Baseball Archive database is available as a Microsoft Access database.
If you’re using Mac OS X, you might have some problems with the MyODBC drivers, depending ...
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