Richard Pearson wrote on 02/06/2008 06:25 AM: > Hi Thomas [...] > With databases, one issue that might be relevant is whether you want to > store data in tables (e.g. one table to store one data.frame) that can > subsequently be manipulated in the DB, or to store R objects as R > objects (e.g. as BLOBs). My situation is likely to be the later case, > and one of my concerns is that many DBs have an upper limit of 2GB on > BLOBs, and I might potentially have objects that are larger than this. [...]
I'd be curious as to why you'd want to store and retrieve R objects from a BLOB column in a table. I've often thought about this, but unfortunately neither the DBI package nor the RODBC package support this. Jeff -- http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JeffreyHorner ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
