This CRAN package provides access to any Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) accessible database.

The package should be platform independent and provide access to any database for which a driver exists. It has been tested with MySQL and PostgreSQL on both Linux and Windows (and to those DBMSs on Linux hosts from R under Windows), Microsoft Access, SQL Server and Excel spreadsheets (read-only), and users have reported success with connections to Oracle and DBase.

Usage is covered in the R Data Import/Export manual (available via the r-doc-pdf, r-doc-html and r-doc-info packages).