Acknowledgements

The relational databases part of this manual is based in part on an earlier manual by Douglas Bates and Saikat DebRoy. The principal author of this manual was Brian Ripley.

Many volunteers have contributed to the packages used here. The principal authors of the packages mentioned are

DBI	David A. James
dataframes2xls	Guido van Steen
foreign	Thomas Lumley, Saikat DebRoy, Douglas Bates, Duncan Murdoch and Roger Bivand
gdata	Gregory R. Warnes
ncdf4	David Pierce
rJava	Simon Urbanek
RJDBC	Simon Urbanek
RMySQL	David James and Saikat DebRoy
RNetCDF	Pavel Michna
RODBC	Michael Lapsley and Brian Ripley
ROracle	David A, James
RPostgreSQL	Sameer Kumar Prayaga and Tomoaki Nishiyama
RSPerl	Duncan Temple Lang
RSPython	Duncan Temple Lang
RSQLite	David A, James
SJava	John Chambers and Duncan Temple Lang
WriteXLS	Marc Schwartz
XLConnect	Mirai Solutions GmbH
XML	Duncan Temple Lang

Brian Ripley is the author of the support for connections.

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