R connect driver

This error is not caused by the Windows install, but if you have bit Office installed and try to use bit R. I've added a script below that will start a second bit R session to read the data from bit Access and then copy the data back to the original bit R session. Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Matthew Plourde Matthew Plourde Thank you mplourde. I just tried it and gives a line of errors: — Chris. Yes, I am using 64 bit R. I will change it to 32 bit if it can help. Yes, I now changed it to 32 bit R and it is working. Thanks for the tip. I am trying this but still I am facing same issue. Its connecting to the database in amazon but not access — Arun Raja. Show 2 more comments. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Dennis Jaheruddin Dennis Jaheruddin Fiddler on the Roofies Fiddler on the Roofies 65 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges.

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Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. The driver implements the DBI Specification. The driver is a young product that offers a basic feature set. We are working diligently to add features to the driver, and our goal is feature parity with the Teradata JDBC Driver.

The driver contains binary code and cannot be offered from CRAN. The driver is available from Teradata's R package repository. To download and install dependencies automatically, specify the Teradata R package repository and CRAN in the repos argument for install.

The following command prints the location of the teradatasql directory. This permits you to view the documentation offline, when you are not connected to the Internet. While the file can be viewed with any text file viewer or editor, your viewing experience will be best with an editor that understands Markdown format. Sample programs are provided to demonstrate how to use the driver. The sample programs are coded with a fake database hostname whomooz , username guest , and password please.

Substitute your actual database hostname and credentials before running a sample program. You may specify connection parameters as a JSON string, as named arguments, or using a combination of the two approaches. The DBI::dbConnect function's third and subsequent arguments are optional named arguments.

When a combination of parameters are specified, connection parameters specified as named arguments take precedence over same-named connection parameters specified in the JSON string.

Our goal is consistency for the connection parameters offered by this driver and the Teradata JDBC Driver, with respect to connection parameter names and functionality. The driver provides Communications Processor COP discovery behavior when the cop connection parameter is true or omitted.

COP Discovery is turned off when the cop connection parameter is false. A database system can be composed of multiple database nodes. One or more of the database nodes can be configured to run the database Gateway process. When performing COP Discovery, the driver starts with cop1, which is appended to the database hostname, and then proceeds with cop2, cop3, The driver supports domain-name qualification for COP Discovery and the coplast hostname.

Domain-name qualification is recommended, because it can improve performance by avoiding unnecessary DNS lookups for DNS search suffixes. The following table illustrates the DNS lookups performed for a hypothetical three-node database system named "whomooz". Round-robin is only possible with DNS, not with the client system hosts file. For the first connection to a particular database system, the driver generates a random number to index into the list of COPs.

For each subsequent connection, the driver increments the saved index until it wraps around to the first position. This behavior provides load distribution across all discovered COPs. The driver masks connection failures to down COPs, thereby hiding most connection failures from the client application.

An exception is thrown to the application only when all the COPs are down for that database. This permits load distribution schemes other than the COP Discovery approach. COP Discovery takes precedence over simple database hostname lookup. Stored Password Protection enables an application to provide a connection password in encrypted form to the driver. Each filename must be preceded by the file: prefix. The PasswordEncryptionKeyFileName specifies the name of a file that contains the password encryption key and associated information.

The EncryptedPasswordFileName specifies the name of a file that contains the encrypted password and associated information. The two files are described below.

These drivers use the same file format. R is a sample program to create encrypted password files for use with Stored Password Protection.

This program works in conjunction with Stored Password Protection offered by the driver. You are not required to use this program to create the files containing the password encryption key and encrypted password. You can develop your own software to create the necessary files. You also use the TJEncryptPassword. You may also use the TJEncryptPassword. The only requirement is that the files must match the format expected by the driver, which is documented below.

This program encrypts the password and then immediately decrypts the password, in order to verify that the password can be successfully decrypted. This program mimics the password decryption of the driver, and is intended to openly illustrate its operation and enable scrutiny by the community. The encrypted password is only as safe as the two files. You are responsible for restricting access to the files containing the password encryption key and encrypted password.

If an attacker obtains both files, the password can be decrypted. The operating system file permissions for the two files should be as limited and restrictive as possible, to ensure that only the intended operating system userid has access to the files. The two files can be kept on separate physical volumes, to reduce the risk that both files might be lost at the same time.

If either or both of the files are located on a network volume, then an encrypted wire protocol can be used to access the network volume, such as sshfs, encrypted NFSv4, or encrypted SMB 3. The TJEncryptPassword program uses the driver to log on to the specified database using the encrypted password, so the driver must already be installed.

The following command assume that the TJEncryptPassword. R program file is located in the current directory. You are not required to use the TJEncryptPassword program to create the files containing the password encryption key and encrypted password. You can develop your own software to create the necessary files, but the files must match the format expected by the driver.

The password encryption key file is a text file in Java Properties file format, using the ISO character encoding. The TJEncryptPassword program uses a timestamp as a shared match value, but a timestamp is not required. Any shared string can serve as a match value. The timestamp is not related in any way to the encryption of the password, and the timestamp cannot be used to decrypt the password.

The encrypted password file is a text file in Java Properties file format, using the ISO character encoding. A transformation is a string that describes the set of operations to be performed on the given input, to produce transformed output.

A transformation specifies the name of a cryptographic algorithm such as DES or AES, followed by a feedback mode and padding scheme. The driver supports the following transformations and key sizes. However, TJEncryptPassword.

Stored Password Protection uses a symmetric encryption algorithm such as DES or AES, in which the same secret key is used for encryption and decryption of the password. Stored Password Protection does not use an asymmetric encryption algorithm such as RSA, with separate public and private keys.

With CBC, each ciphertext block is dependent on all plaintext blocks processed up to that point. CBC is suitable for encrypting data whose total byte count exceeds the algorithm's block size, and is therefore suitable for use with Stored Password Protection. Stored Password Protection hides the password length in the encrypted password file by extending the length of the UTF8-encoded password with trailing null bytes. The length is extended to the next byte boundary.

The strength of the encryption depends on your choice of cipher algorithm and key size. This driver and the Teradata JDBC Driver can share the files containing the password encryption key and encrypted password, if you use a transformation, key size, and MAC algorithm that is supported by both drivers. The files can be located in the current directory, specified with a relative path, or specified with an absolute path.

The two filenames specified for an encrypted password must be accessible to the driver and must conform to the properties file formats described above. The driver signals an error if the file is not accessible, or the file does not conform to the required file format. The driver verifies that the match values in the two files are present, and match each other. The driver signals an error if the match values differ from each other. The match values are compared to ensure that the two specified files are related to each other, serving as a "sanity check" to help avoid configuration errors.

Before decryption, the driver calculates the MAC using the ciphertext, transformation name, and algorithm parameters if any, and verifies that the calculated MAC matches the expected MAC.

The driver signals an error if the calculated MAC differs from the expected MAC, to indicate that either or both of the files may have been tampered with.

Client Attributes record a variety of information about the client system and client software in the system tables DBC. SessionTbl and DBC. Client Attributes are intended to be a replacement for the information recorded in the LogonSource column of the system tables DBC. The Client Attributes are recorded at session logon time. Subsequently, the system views DBC. LogOnOffV can be queried to obtain information about the client system and client software on a per-session basis.

Client Attribute values may be recorded in the database in either mixed-case or in uppercase, depending on the session character set and other factors. Analysis of recorded Client Attributes must flexibly accommodate either mixed-case or uppercase values. Warning: The information in this section is subject to change in future releases of the driver. Client Attributes can be "mined" for information about client system demographics; however, any applications that parse Client Attribute values must be changed if Client Attribute formats are changed in the future.

Client Attributes are not intended to be used for workload management. Instead, query bands are intended for workload management. Any use of Client Attributes for workload management may break if Client Attributes are changed, or augmented, in the future. The LogonSource column is obsolete and has been superseded by Client Attributes. The LogonSource column may be deprecated and subsequently removed in future releases of the database.

When the driver establishes a connection to the database, the driver composes a string value that is stored in the LogonSource column of the system tables DBC. All LogonSource values are recorded in the database in uppercase. Network-attached LogonSource values have eight fields, separated by whitespace. The database composes fields 1 through 3, and the driver composes fields 4 through 8. The tmode connection parameter enables an application to specify the transaction mode for the connection.

The primary benefit of using ANSI mode is that inadvertent data truncation is avoided. When a connection is first established, it begins with the default auto-commit setting, which is on. Verify that odbc recognizes the installed drivers using odbcListDrivers. Here is an example result:. Determine if a DSN is going to be used to connect to the database. This would be typically something that the Database Administrator, or the technical owner of the database, would setup and provide the R developer a name known as an alias.

Use dbConnect to open a database connection in this manner:.