All except RODBC are tied to one DBMS, but there has been a proposal for a unified ‘front-end’ package DBI (https://developer.r-project.org/db/) in conjunction with a ‘back-end’, the most developed of which is RMySQL.
It's certainly minor, but (1) the first portion is now wrong with the presence of odbc, and (2) I think the focus on RMySQL, while it may be historically correct, may not need to be focused as much anymore. (The section on RODBC is a lot more DBMS-agnostic, for comparison.)
(It may also be nice to throw a bone at parameterized queries in the examples, too, even if just a demo without conversation. It's such an under-utilized feature, if StackOverflow questions are a good indicator, that this is just one more place to make the introduction.)
The current https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-data.html chapter 4.3 R interface packages mentions
DBI
but the information is well out-of-date:It's certainly minor, but (1) the first portion is now wrong with the presence of
odbc
, and (2) I think the focus onRMySQL
, while it may be historically correct, may not need to be focused as much anymore. (The section onRODBC
is a lot more DBMS-agnostic, for comparison.)(It may also be nice to throw a bone at parameterized queries in the examples, too, even if just a demo without conversation. It's such an under-utilized feature, if StackOverflow questions are a good indicator, that this is just one more place to make the introduction.)