Hi, Hope this post keeps you in the best of health. I am an oracle user and wanted to know how to fetch database information in R. There is a package out there called ROracle but there are no binaries for it and it thus needs to be built and then installed. Here are the steps to install it on Windows 7 machines. 1. Download the package from http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ROracle/index.html. Since I wrote this post the latest that was available was ROracle_1.1-12.tar.gz . 2. Place the package in the directory where R is installed. I placed mine in E:\R\R-3.0.2\bin folder. 3. Install RTools from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/. Since my R version is R-3.0.2 the toolkit I needed was RTools31.exe. 4. Install the Rtools software in the R home directory. I placed mine in E:\R\Rtools. Place all the extras in there too. For example I placed my 32 bit extras in E:\R\RExtras32 and the 64 bit in E:\R\RExtras64 folder. These extras are not necessary for ...