r - How to install ROracle package on Windows 7?

Question

I'm trying to install ROracle package on my Windows 7 client. I have Oracle Instant client and Rtools installed, DBI package is istalled, OCI32_LIB environmental variable has been set. But when I try to install from command line:

C:Temp>R CMD INSTALL --build ROracle_1.1-10.tar.gz
* installing to library 'C:/Users/myaccount/Documents/R/win-library/3.0'
* installing *source* package 'ROracle' ...
** package 'ROracle' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'ROracle'
* removing 'C:/Users/myaccount/Documents/R/win-library/3.0/ROracle'

C:Temp>

When I try to install from source:

> install.packages("ROracle",type = "source")
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘ROracle’ is not available (for R version 3.0.0)
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/myaccount/Documents/R/win-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/ROracle_1.1-10.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 168193 bytes (164 Kb)
opened URL
downloaded 164 Kb

* installing *source* package 'ROracle' ...
** package 'ROracle' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'ROracle'
* removing 'C:/Users/myaccount/Documents/R/win-library/3.0/ROracle'
Warning in install.packages :
  running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.0/bin/i386/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:UsersmyaccountDocumentsRwin-library3.0" C:UsersmyaccountAppDataLocalTempRtmpGggbyp/downloaded_packages/ROracle_1.1-10.tar.gz' had status 1
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘ROracle’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘C:UsersmyaccountAppDataLocalTempRtmpGggbypdownloaded_packages’

What should I do, how to proceed?

Answer 1

From http://jgilfillan.github.io/2016/05/28/how-to-install-roracle-in-windows-7/

Download binary from oracle: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/r/roracle/downloads/index.html

The run the following command in r, substituting the file path:

setwd('xxxxx')   # set to path of download
install.packages('ROracle_1.2-1.zip', repos = NULL)

Then load the library and use the package - you may have to change XXXX to whatever is in your TNS Names:

library('ROracle')
drv <- dbDriver("Oracle")
con <- dbConnect(drv, "USER GOES HERE", "PASSWORD GOES HERE", dbname='XXX')

test connection:

dbReadTable(con, 'DUAL')

Note that this has also been confirmed to work on Windows 10.