I'm using RODBC package to connect to Oracle databases from R but I didn't succeed in merging tables from different databases without "downloading" the tables (I don't want to download them as they are too big!). I'd like to use something like:
DBa=odbcConnect(dsn="DatabaseA",uid="uid",pwd="pwd",readOnly="True")
DBb=odbcConnect(dsn="DatabaseB",uid="uid",pwd="pwd",readOnly="True")
sqldf("select a.year, sum(b.var) as sumVar
from sqlFetch(DBa,'tableA') a
sqlFetch(DBb,'tableB') b
where a.ID=b.ID
group by a.year")
If someone has an idea, it would be really helpful! Many thanks in advance.
Lionel
This question is similar to the question here. The answer seems to be that RODBC cannot access two different databases in a single query, using
sqlQuery(...)
, because the connection (channel) is database-specific. So either