I want use MySQL database in R environment. I am using Ubuntu OS. To do this I should install unixODBC or iodbc and install odbc driver for MySQL. I encounter with error in R when I want connect to database: file /usr/lib/odbc/libmyodbc.so not found. But of course that file is in that directory. I googled everything I think. the only clue I have that it is probably problem with mysql odbc driver, it does not see the file (why?). Any help is appreciated.
There is work around to this problem – use rmysql package for R. Nice!
The “RMySQL” package on CRAN is what you need, here a link for more info:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RMySQL/
Found the above by Googling “R MySQL”.
(NOTE: This answer was first posted as a comment, but worked, so I’m posting it as the answer to clean up the page.)