Easy-to-use functions to explore Oracle databases and import data into R. User interface for the ROracle package.
o desc() shows LAST_ANALYZED date (shown below table) as a string, not integer.
o Renamed package from "ROracleUI" to "ora".
o Adapted to changes in ROracle 1.1-1 and later.
o Removed functions as.POSIXct.data.frame() and to_char(), since ROracle now imports time/date columns as POSIX objects.
o Improved handling of ROracle error messages.
o Improved robustness to space-like characters [ \f\n\r\t\v\240].
o The '...' argument can be used to select user/pass/dbname in sql(), desc(), tables(), and views().
o Added argument 'encoding' to sql().
o desc() is robust to ambiguous table names.
o Added argument 'stringsAsFactors' to sql().
o Renamed argument 'warnings' to 'warn' in sql().
o Added Windows support.
o Initial release.