A new package has been released for the "R Statistical Programming Language" in which the R community has put a great effort into it: RMariaDB.

It enables a robust data transfer between R and MariaDB.

The link on CRAN (R package repository) can be accessed from:

And can be installed in R by using the following statement:

So, just as PHP community developed connector was distributed in the past within MySQL webpage, I do think that this connector could benefit from being distributed (or having a link to CRAN) from the MariaDB Foundation Download Webpage.

I believe that many people has putted a great effort on this connector, and it would benefit from greater visibility for better support and maintenance.

Thank you,

Juan