Richard Pearson wrote on 02/06/2008 06:25 AM:
> Hi Thomas
[...]
> With databases, one issue that might be relevant is whether you want to
> store data in tables (e.g. one table to store one data.frame) that can
> subsequently be manipulated in the DB, or to store R objects as R
> objects (e.g. as BLOBs). My situation is likely to be the later case,
> and one of my concerns is that many DBs have an upper limit of 2GB on
> BLOBs, and I might potentially have objects that are larger than this.
[...]
I'd be curious as to why you'd want to store and retrieve R objects from a BLOB column in a table. I've often thought about this, but unfortunately neither the DBI package nor the RODBC package support this.
Jeff
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