title: How to install RMySQL package on Windows 7
body: <p>I would like to install RMySQL package on my computer running on Windows 7. On the package website, <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RMySQL/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RMySQL/index.html</a> , it seems that the Windows package version doesn't exist... I try to understand the ReadMe, but I couldn't. </p>
  
  <p>Does someone could tell me how to install properly this package ? </p>
  
  <p>I tried the following code </p>
  
  <pre><code>install.packages('RMySQL', type='source')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I get the following message : </p>
  
  <pre><code>Warning in install.packages :
    package ‘RMySQL’ is not available (for R version 3.0.0)
  Installing package into ‘C:/Users/XXXXX/Documents/R/win-library/3.0’
  (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
  trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/RMySQL_0.9-3.tar.gz'
  Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 165363 bytes (161 Kb)
  opened URL
  downloaded 161 Kb
  
  * installing *source* package 'RMySQL' ...
  ** package 'RMySQL' correctement décompressé et sommes MD5 vérifiées
  ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RMySQL'
  * removing 'C:/Users/XXXXX/Documents/R/win-library/3.0/RMySQL'
  Warning in install.packages :
    running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.0/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\XXXXX\Documents\R\win-library\3.0" C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpo9RLF3/downloaded_packages/RMySQL_0.9-3.tar.gz' had status 1
  Warning in install.packages :
    installation of package ‘RMySQL’ had non-zero exit status
  
  The downloaded source packages are in
      ‘C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpo9RLF3\downloaded_packages’
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And nothing appears in the Packages windows in RStudio... 
  Thank you for your help.</p>