odbc | R Observatory

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamFirst published 2017-02-0530 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A DBI-compatible interface to ODBC databases.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("odbc", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("r-dbi/odbc")

Development version from r-dbi/odbc. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-odbc

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-odbc

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-odbc

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 5.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.52

38.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-05-10
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 405 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 30%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 73%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #284 · ~4.2K/day · ~127.6K/mo

Releases R versions

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151.9K30 days

457.1K90 days

1.5M1 year

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Also on11.2K r2u118 autocran18.5K conda_forge260 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-dbi/odbc

413Stars

117Forks

67Open issues

7Open PRs

23Releases

1,359Commits

48Contributors

rdatabaseodbc

1,359 commits · Last activity 2026-07-12 · -0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-05 · 4012026-07-07 · 414

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-dbi/odbc on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (10)

bit64 blob cli DBI hms lifecyclemethodsRcpp rlang vctrs

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (13)

connectcreds covr DBItest httr2 knitr magrittr paws.common rmarkdown RSQLite snowflakeauth testthat tibble withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

C++ 15,867 (48%)R 9,328 (28%)C 4,794 (14%)Rd 1,867 (6%)Vignettes 798 (2%)Markdown 608 (2%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S34S4 class25S4 generic8S4 method102

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 23 max
Test cases: 147 / 0.52 per code line
System requirements: 3 external

Test coverage

Line coverage

39%

Expression

41.8%

Tests / Examples

38.6% / – ex

Functions

690 16 exported

Complexity

2.9 avg / 23 max

Call network

690 nodes / 811 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

690 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
odbcEditSystemDSN exp	1	0%
odbcEditUserDSN exp	1	0%
odbcListDataSources exp	1	0%
odbcSetTransactionIsolationLevel exp	1	0%
redshift exp	1	0%
snowflake exp	1	0%

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer

Simon Couch

Author · added in 1.6.2

Oliver Gjoneski

Author · added in 1.3.4

Jim Hester

Author

Copyright holders (3)

Google Inc.

Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4.0

lexicalunit

Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4.0

Listed in earlier versions (3)

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.0.1

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.1.0 to 1.3.5

Oliver

no longer listed · 1.3.0 to 1.3.3

Package Timeline

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-02-05
Total releases: 30 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 351 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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