If you're wanting to retrieve data from external databases (I vaguely recall that is what SAS's proc sql does), then start by looking at the DBI package, which provides support for ROracle, RMySQL, and several more. There is also RODBC.
-- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 1/15/16, 9:59 AM, "R-help on behalf of Amoy Yang via R-help" <r-help-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Hi All, >I am new here and a beginner for R. Can I use SQL procedure in R >environment as it can be done in SAS starting with PROC SQL; >Thanks for helps! > >Amoy > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.