DBI (version 0.2-1)

DBIDriver-class: Class DBIDriver

Description

Base class for all DBMS drivers (e.g., ODBC, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL).

Objects from the Class

A virtual Class: No objects may be created from it.

Extends

Class "DBIObject", directly.

Generator

The generator for classes that extend DBIDriver is dbDriver.

References

See the Database Interface definition document DBI.pdf in the base directory of this package or http://developer.r-project.org/db.

See Also

DBI classes: DBIObject-class DBIDriver-class DBIConnection-class DBIResult-class

The function dbConnect is the main generator.

In addition see the help of the methods above.

Examples

drv <- dbDriver("ODBC")
summary(drv)
dbListConnections(drv)