How to install RMySQL package on Windows 7

Question

I would like to install RMySQL package on my computer running on Windows 7. On the package website, http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RMySQL/index.html , it seems that the Windows package version doesn't exist... I try to understand the ReadMe, but I couldn't.

Does someone could tell me how to install properly this package ?

I tried the following code

install.packages('RMySQL', type='source')

and I get the following message :

Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘RMySQL’ is not available (for R version 3.0.0)
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/XXXXX/Documents/R/win-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/RMySQL_0.9-3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 165363 bytes (161 Kb)
opened URL
downloaded 161 Kb

* installing *source* package 'RMySQL' ...
** package 'RMySQL' correctement décompressé et sommes MD5 vérifiées
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RMySQL'
* removing 'C:/Users/XXXXX/Documents/R/win-library/3.0/RMySQL'
Warning in install.packages :
  running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.0/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\XXXXX\Documents\R\win-library\3.0" C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpo9RLF3/downloaded_packages/RMySQL_0.9-3.tar.gz' had status 1
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘RMySQL’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpo9RLF3\downloaded_packages’

And nothing appears in the Packages windows in RStudio... Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

You might want to look at RODBC package as a work around.

Answer 2

From that readme file:

Packages related to many database system must be linked to the exact version of the database system the user has installed, hence it does not make sense to provide binaries for packages RMySQL, ROracle, ROracleUI, TSMySQL, dbConnect although it is possible to install such packages from sources by install.packages('packagename', type='source') after reading the manual 'R Installation and Administration'.