From jeff.horner at vanderbilt.edu  Fri Jan 21 19:31:32 2005
From: jeff.horner at vanderbilt.edu (Jeffrey Horner)
Date: Fri Jan 21 19:31:41 2005
Subject: [Rd] Struggling with S3/S4 interface issues and External Pointers
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Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
[...]>
> You asked elsewhere why RMySQL does not use it, but AFAIK it predates 
> the mechanism.  RODBC and XML have only used it recently.

Actually, Luke suggested it be used when DBI was just forming:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-db/2001-October/000028.html

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Jeffrey Horner       Computer Systems Analyst         School of Medicine
615-322-8606         Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University


[Rd] Struggling with S3/S4 interface issues and External Pointers
Jeffrey Horner