Question

I tried to use RMySQL package but i get this error doing:

install.packages('RMySQL')

Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘RMySQL’ is not available (for R version 2.14.2)

What can I do to use MySQL with R?

Thank you!

Answer 1

There is not a windows binary available for the package RMySQL. This means you will have to install this package from source and build it yourself.

At the CRAN RMySql page you will notice there is no binary available, with a link to Pre-compiled binary packages for R-2.14.x for Windows

From this page:

Packages related to many database system must be linked to the exact 
version of the database system the user has installed, hence it does 
not make sense to provide binaries for packages
    RMySQL, ROracle, ROracleUI,
although it is possible to install such packages from sources by
    install.packages('packagename', type='source')
after reading the manual 'R Installation and Administration'.

So, read the manuals, in particular R Installation and Administration, install RTools, and then use:

install.packages('RMySQL', type='source')